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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all.'Harriet Moore Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Countess Morley - delighted with it.'[Countess] Morley Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Cockerelle - liked it so little, that Fanny would not send me his opinion.'[Mr] Cockerelle Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Dickson - did not much like it - thought it [italics] very [end italics] inferior to P & P. - Liked it the less, from there being a Mr & Mrs Dixon in it.'[Mrs] Dickson Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'[Mrs] Brandreth Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr B. Lefroy - thought that if there had been more Incident, it would be equal to any of the others. -The Characters quite as well drawn & supported as in any, & from b...Benjamin Lefroy Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it to M.P. - but like[?]d M.P. the least of all.'[Mrs] Lefroy Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Fowle - read only the first & last Chapters, because he had heard it was not interesting.'[Mr] Fowle Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it very much, better than MP - & thought I had "brought it all about very cleverly in the last volume."'[Mrs] Lutley Sclater Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs C. Cage wrote thus to Fanny - "A great many thanks for the loan of "Emma," which I am delighted with. I like it better than any. Every character is thoroughly kept ...[Mrs C.] Cage Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P & P. - Thought the Authoress wrong, in such times as these, to draw such Clergymen as Mr Collins & Mr Elton.'[Mrs] Wroughton Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sir J. Langham - thought it much inferior to the others.'Sir J. Langham Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.'Francis Jeffrey Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Murden - certainly inferior to all the others.'[Miss] Murden Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Capt C. Austen wrote - "Emma arrived in time to a moment. I am delighted with her, more so I think than even with my favourite Pride & Prejudice, & have read it three t...Charles Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs D. Dundas - thought it very clever, but did not like it so well as either of the others.'Janet Whitley-Deans-Dundas Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read the last volume of "Emma", a novel evincing great good sense, and an acute observation of human life, but it is not interesting. One cares little fo...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'You surprise me greatly by what you say of "Emma" and the other books. They enjoy the highest reputation, and I own, for my part, I was delighted with them. I fear the...Edward Bulwer Lytton Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading "Emma". Everything Miss Austen writes is clever, but I desiderate something. There is a want of [italics] body [close italics] to the story. The a...John Henry Newman Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Miss Austen's "Emma", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing and sustaining character, though not satisfying me a...William Charles Macready Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book


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