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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as I read. I don't suppose my powers are equal to her...Margaret Oliphant Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899H. J. Jackson notes pencilled marginalia by Harriet Martineau in her copy of Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857), which include "corrections and contradict...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.'George Eliot (pseud) Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.'George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesElizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [italics]Life of Miss Bronte[end italics]. Years ago, ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1900-1945'So I turned, as often, for help and advice to Mrs.Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte", which Winifred and I had read and admired together.'Vera Brittain Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899[From letter to Clement Shorter from the niece of John Nunn:] 'In 1857 I was staying with Mr Nunn at Thorndon, in Suffolk, of which place he was rector. The good man h...anon Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899From 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 Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte's schoolfriend, Mary Taylor, to Elizabeth Gaskell, 30 July 1857:

'I am unaccountably in receipt by post of two vols containing the "Life of ...		Mary Taylor Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899Margaret Wooler, Charlotte Bronte's former schoolteacher, to Ellen Nussey, another former pupil (1857):

'Mrs Palmer says she was more interested in [Charlo...		Mrs Palmer Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 15 May 1883:

'Miss Robinson's "Emily Bronte" is prettily enou...		Sidney Biddell Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899

[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]


'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Of Mrs G...

George Eliot Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs...Katherine Evans Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte Bronte, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pres...Emily Tennyson PressenseLife of ChristPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Conyers MiddletonLife of CiceroPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 30 October 1807: 'In the evening began reading the "Life of Clarendon".'Mary Berry ListerLife of ClarendonPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 11 November 1807: 'In the evening I read aloud "Clarendon's Life".'Mary Berry ListerLife of ClarendonPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 16 November 1807: 'Read "Clarendon's Life" aloud in the evening.'Mary Berry ListerLife of ClarendonPrint: Book
1900-1945That I understood very little of what I read did not really matter to me (Washington Irving's 'Life of Columbus' was as awful as the dictionary because of the long words)...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Washington IrvingLife of ColumbusPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, just out, and I have read it ..."Henry James Edmund GosseLife of CongrevePrint: Book


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