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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a copy of your poem "To a Lady fond of Life?" She she...Sir George Lyttleton Elizabeth Carter'To a Lady Fond of Life'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the death...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth Eastlake'Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life'Elizabeth Edminson Elizabeth Edminson[Paper on Lecky's 'Map of Life']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mrs Edminson then read an appreciative article on the life and letters of J.S. [?] Brown which was much appreciated'.Elizabeth Edminson Elizabeth Edminson[paper on [?] J.S. Brown]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have been reading over an old journal book. Ah saith my soul, how has the loving kindness and tender mercy of the Almighty been manifested to me'Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Fry[Journal]Manuscript: Codex
1800-1849'I have lately been reading some of my old journals in the year 1801. It has been very affecting to me; In what a low state I was, and how much I passed through, unbelief...Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth FryJournalsManuscript: Codex
1800-1849'New Years Day - fourteen children to dine with us - had meant to read them my concentrated journal of the year; but courage failed me ... Since, I have read my journal t...Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth FryJournalManuscript: Codex
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow"....Flora Thompson Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual'Caroline Clive Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
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
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 12 January 1853, regarding timings of publications of her and Gaskell's new works: ' ... I had felt and expressed to Mr Smith -- re...Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth GaskellRuthPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Patrick Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, June 1853, regarding Gaskell's planned visit to Haworth: 'From what I have heard my Daughter say of you, and from the perusal of your...Patrick Bronte Elizabeth GaskellnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher Elizabeth Gaskell[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full stop [on coming to episode unfit for children] ... s...Elizabeth Sewell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Mary Crawford Fraser recalled how a contemporary at the boarding-school run by her aunt, with a background in trade, was expelled for reading from unsuitable passages of...Rosie Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: 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'we spent the evening pleasantly, in spite of ailing bodies, reading Mrs Gaskell's pretty "Cranford".'George Eliot and G.H. LewesElizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading, in the evening, "Poor Peter".'George Eliot and G.H. LewesElizabeth GaskellCranford - 'Poor Peter' sectionPrint: 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


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