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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Mr N. never knew, till long after Shirley was published, that she wrote books; and came in, cold & disapproving one day, to ask her if the report he had heard at Keighle...Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Charlotte Bronte] has had an uncomfortable kind of coolness with Miss Martineau, on account of some [italics] very [end italics] disagreeable remarks Miss M. made o...Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my goodness. I am sure that she works off a great deal that...Lady Kay-Shuttleworth Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my goodness. I am sure that she works off a great deal that...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899[Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the...Patrick Bronte Charlotte Bronte Jane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'I think I told you that I disliked a good deal in the plot of Shirley, but the expression of her own thoughts in it is so true and brave, that I greatly admire her.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'she said to H M, 'What did you really think of "Jane Eyre"?' H M. I thought it a first rate book, whereupon the little spirite went red all over with pleasure.'Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you know Dr Epps - I think you do - ask him to tell you who wrote Jane Eyre and Shirley,- <...> Do tell me who wrote Jane Eyre'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, havin...M. Jusserand Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 'Jane Eyre', it is an uncommon book. I don't know if I like or dislike it. I take the opposite side to the person I'm talking with always in order to hear some conv...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have looked for Mr Macarthey's character in Shirley, and I find it exactly corresponds with what you have told me of Mr Nicholls, & also with what she herself has said...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read [italics] once [end italics] over all the letters you so kindly entrusted me with, and I don't think even you, her most cherished friend, could wish the impr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters to Ellen Nussey]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I am extremely obliged to you for the pacquet of Miss Bronte's letters which I found here on my return home, too late for Friday's post for me to acknowledge them. I hav...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters to W.S. Williams]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a packet about the size of a lady's travelling writing...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[manuscripts]Manuscript: books
1850-1899'I have read the Professor, - I don't see the objections to its publication that I apprehended, - or at least only such, as the omissions of three or four short ppassages...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, TheManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life, - & I thought if he were again brought before the p...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, TheManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The Professor is curious as indicating strong character & rare faculties on the part of the author; but not interesting as a story. And yet there are parts one would not...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, The
1850-1899'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'.Marianne Gaskell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'From what I can judge from the letters Mr Nicholls has entrusted me with, her [Charlotte Bronte's] very earliest way of expressing herself must have been different to co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'The letters Mr Smith does send principally relate to the other Bronte's transactions with Newby, or else they are (very clever) criticism on Thackeray, man and writings....Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Manuscript: Letter


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