√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'It has most glaring faults as a historical style, but in spite of its obscurity, barbaric whirl of words, & the still graver charge of a certain indifferentism or fatali... G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution Print : Book1800-1849 'I think he has great merit, uncommon clearness of style & thought, as an historian and a general impartiality, which extends sometimes to vice and virtue, despotism & li... G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Adolphe Thiers Histoire de la Révolution Française Print : Book1800-1849 'I finished chiefly in bed after the House. I like it extremely; perhaps there is not quite so much power as in Ellen Middleton, but it is full of beauty & interest; one ... G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Georgiana Fullerton Grantley Print : Book1800-1849 'very powerful & interesting, in parts very fine, not altogether pleasing — some striking delineation of character; it is said to be by a woman, but it is not femin... G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Print : Book1800-1849 'I had read it first to nearly the very same people after my Father's illness in 1844; it is only less beautiful than practical & useful' G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Henry Melvill Sermon on the Proportion of Grace to Trial Print : Unknown1800-1849 'admirable in design, execution, story & delineation of character. I only allow myself these pleasant readings when in bed' G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton Print : Unknown1800-1849 'It is impossible to read a more entertaining book, & it very much exalts one's opinion of the author's ability. But what a picture he draws & exhibits in himself of huma... G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle John Hervey Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second, from hi... Print : Book1800-1849 'I only hope that its appalling details of profligacy are exaggerated' G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Alexandre Dumas La Regence Print : Book1800-1849 'I had not looked at it before, which is very wrong, & it did not do well' G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Walter Hook Sermon [from his work on miracles] Print : Unknown1800-1849 [Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 23 December 1847:] Charlotte Brontė review of Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 23 December 1847: Charlotte Brontë Henry Fielding unknown Print : Book1800-1849 John Gibson Lockhart to Mr and Mrs Hope, 29 December 1847: John Gibson Lockhart Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 31 December 1847: Charlotte Brontë review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to George Henry Lewes, 12 January 1848:
Charlotte Brontë Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to George Henry Lewes, 12 January 1848:
Charlotte Brontë George Sand (pseud.) Consuelo Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to George Henry Lewes, 12 January 1848:
Charlotte Brontë George Sand (pseud.) unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 28 February 1848:
Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown [news of abdication of French king Louis Philippe] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 3 March 1848:
Charlotte Brontë review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 29 March 1848:
Charlotte Brontë review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 29 March 1848:
Charlotte Brontë review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Print : Serial / periodical
