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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Another [woman prisoner] read and re-read "Uncle Tom's Cabin," till she must have known by heart every incident of that famous work. She was partial to telling the sto...Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Andrew Lang, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (Vol II, pp.307-309):

'"Kingsley, in a letter to Mrs Gaskell, rejoices that he had never expre...		Charles Kingsley Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Algernon Charles Swinburne to Sir T. Wemyss Reid, in response to Reid's Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph, 24 September 1877:

'I need not say how grateful I shou...		Algernon Charles Swinburne Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Algernon Charles Swinburne to Sir T. Wemyss Reid, in response to Reid's Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph, 24 September 1877:

'I need not say how grateful I shou...		Algernon Charles Swinburne Emily BrontëWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Algernon Charles Swinburne to Sir T. Wemyss Reid, in letter responding to Reid's Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph, 24 September 1877:

'The only reference [...] ...		anon Emily BrontëWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Lady Ritchie (W. M. Thackeray's daughter)'s recollections of her first meeting with Charlotte Bronte:

'To say that we little girls had been given Jane E...		Thackeray sistersCharlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		W. M. Heald to Ellen Nussey, 8 January 1850: 'The celebrated "Shirley" has just found its way hither. And as one always reads a book with more interest when one has a ...William Margetson Heald Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith, 9 January 1850:

'You ask me what I think of [Thackeray's] Christmas Book. I think it is like himself, and all he says and writ...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayChristmas BookPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:

'I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge...		anon Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Charlotte Bronte, 25 April 1850:

'Yesterday, I went along the shore past two wharves and several warehouses on a st. where I ...		Mary Taylor The Manchester ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Charlotte Bronte, 25 April 1850:

'I have seen some extracts from "Shirley" in which you talk of women working. And this first...		Mary Taylor Charlotte BrontëShirley (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850:

'After waiting about six months we have just got "Shirley." It was landed from the Constant...		Mary Taylor Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 26 September 1850:

'Rumour says we are to expect from you a Christmas Book [...] If the report about the Christmas B...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851:

'I did enjoy my visit to Miss Martineau very much [...] I rather tremble at the anticipation of a ...		Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau and H. G. AtkinsonLetters on the Laws of Man's Social NatureUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851:

'I did enjoy my visit to Miss Martineau very much [...] I rather tremble at the anticipation of a ...		Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau and H. G. AtkinsonLetters on the Laws of Man's Social NatureUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 5 May 1851:

'I enclose a letter of Mr Morgan's to Papa — written just after he had read "Shirley." It is curious to...		Mr Morgan Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 12 May 1851:

'I fear it cannot be denied that Mr Thackeray has actually gone and written a poem. The whole of the ...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace Thackeray'May-Day Ode'Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 15 November 1851:

'The BATH scene [in letter of Taylor's from India] amused me much. Your account of that operation talli...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayNotes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand CairoPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, December 1851:

'You ask me about the "Lily and the Bee." If you have read it dear Ellen, you have effected an exploit bey...		Charlotte Brontë Samuel WarrenunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 28 May 1853:

'I despatch to-day a box of return books [loaned by Williams]: among them will be found two or three of th...		Charlotte Brontë Thomas MooreLife, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (vols 1 a...Print: Book


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