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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		James Chesterton Bradley to Robert Keating Smith, 3 May 1902:

'A short paper of yours in "The Tatler" of April 2nd brought before me my old friend James W[il...		James Chesterton Bradley Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: 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
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Catherine Winkworth Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Catherine Winkworth Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Eliza Paterson Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Eliza Paterson Charlotte 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 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:

'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
1850-1899Mary 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 BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
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
1850-1899'Villette was published on January 28th, 1853 [...] George Eliot wrote enthusiastically to Mrs Bray, "I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for...George Eliot (pseud.) Charlotte BrontëVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899Catherine Winkworth to Emma Shaen, 23 March 1853:

'I made up my mind not to write to you again till I had read "Villette" and now I have finished it [...] ...		Catherine Winkworth Charlotte BrontëVillettePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charles Kingsley to Elizabeth Gaskell, 14 May 1857:

'Let me renew our long interrupted acquaintance by complimenting you on poor Miss Bronte's "Life." You ...		Charles Kingsley Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Margaret Wooler, Charlotte Bronte's former schoolteacher, to Ellen Nussey, another former pupil (1857):

'Did I name to you that Mrs E. Gibson knows two or ...		'young ladies'Charlotte BrontëVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899Patrick Bronte to George Smith, his daughter Charlotte's publisher before her death in 1855, 26 March 1860:

'Though writing is to me now something of a tas...		Patrick Brontë Charlotte Brontë'The Last Sketch — Emma, a Fragment of a Story by ...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Robinson, author of an early study of Emily Bronte, to Charlotte Bronte's friend Ellen Nussey, 5 April 1882:

'I am an architect's daughter and like th...		Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Charlotte BrontëunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson Charlotte Bronte Print: Book
1900-1945'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...Philip Inman Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book


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