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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 1 January 1833:] 'I am glad you like "Kenilworth"; it is certainly a splendid production, more resembling a Romance...Charlotte Bronte Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849[From Ellen Nussey's account of her first visit to the home of her schoolfriend, Charlotte Bronte:] 'In summer [Elizabeth Branwell] spent part of the afternoon in read...Elizabeth Branwell  Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:] 'It is not from affected hypocrisy that I comme...Branwell Bronte James Hogg Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:] 'It is not from affected hypocrisy that I comme...Branwell Bronte Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Mary Taylor to Elizabeth Gaskell, on the Bronte brother and sisters' religious reading and its relation to their depressive tendencies:] 'Cowper's poem The Castaway w...Bronte children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne)William CowperThe TaskPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on her struggles with religious melancholy, 20 February 1837:] 'Last Sunday I took up my Bible in a gloomy frame of mind; I began to...Charlotte Bronte BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on her struggles with religious melancholy, 20 February 1837:] 'Last Sunday I took up my Bible in a gloomy frame of mind; I began to...Charlotte Bronte 'life of a certain French nobleman'Print: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously...Charlotte Bronte Thomas SimsBrief Memorials of Jean Frédéric OberlinPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously...Charlotte Bronte Legh RichmondDomestic PortraiturePrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously...Charlotte Bronte Thomas PriceMemoir of William WilberforcePrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, in postscript to letter of 7 April 1840:] 'Mr [William] Weightman [curate at Haworth] has given another lecture at the Keighley Mech...Charlotte Bronte reports of lectures by William Weightman and Patri...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to William Wordsworth (in draft response to letter from him of c.1840):] 'I am sorry I did not exist, sir, fifty or sixty years ago, when the "Ladies...Charlotte Bronte The Lady's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 20 August 1840:] 'I have got another bale of French books from Gomersal -- containing upwards of 40 volumes -- I have read about hal...Charlotte Bronte 'French books'Print: Book
1800-1849'Of Charlotte Bronte's sojourn at Upperwood House, Rawdon, there is only one slight record apart from her letters. It is contained in a communication to the Westminster G...Charlotte Bronte  Print: Book
1800-1849From Emily Bronte's 'diary paper' of 30 July 1841: 'It is Friday evening, near 9 o'clock -- wild rainy weather. I am seated in the dining-room alone [...] Papa is in t...Elizabeth Branwell Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the Bronte Museum, there is a manuscript French phrase book, written and used by the Rev. Patrick Bronte during this [February 1842] visit to Brussels. It is a little...Patrick Bronte Turenne's New French Manual for 1840Print: Book
1800-1849[Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842:] 'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have lately seen something of my "head work" wish me to ...James Montgomery Branwell Bronte Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842: 'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have lately seen something of my "head work" wish me to tu...anon Branwell Bronte Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Constantin Heger (in source eds' translation from French), 24 July 1844:] 'I greatly fear that I shall forget French [...] To avoid such a misfort...Charlotte Bronte French book/sPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Margaret Wooler, on the Bronte sisters' investment plans, 23 April 1845:] 'There is nothing so uncertain as rail-roads; the price of shares vari...Emily Bronte articles on railways and railway stockPrint: Newspaper


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