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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850: 'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much pleased with the book. [italics]I[end italics] am rea...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to Jane Eyre in spontaneousness & earnestness: I found ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From 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 Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		James Chesterton Bradley to Robert Keating Smith, 3 May 1902:

'A short paper of yours in "The Tatler" of April 2nd brought before me my old friend James W[il...		James Chesterton Bradley Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Catherine Winkworth Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Eliza Paterson Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		W. M. Heald to Ellen Nussey, 8 January 1850: 'The celebrated "Shirley" has just found its way hither. And as one always reads a book with more interest when one has a ...William Margetson Heald Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850:

'After waiting about six months we have just got "Shirley." It was landed from the Constant...		Mary Taylor Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 11 March 1851:

'Mama has written to Waring abusing Miss Bronte for writing "Shirley," and Waring thereupon as...		William Waring Taylor Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 5 May 1851:

'I enclose a letter of Mr Morgan's to Papa — written just after he had read "Shirley." It is curious to...		Mr Morgan Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charles Kingsley to Elizabeth Gaskell, 14 May 1857:

'Let me renew our long interrupted acquaintance by complimenting you on poor Miss Bronte's "Life." You ...		Charles Kingsley Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Francis E. Pollard Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Rosamund Wallis Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished "Shirley"; which I think better than either "Jane Eyre" or "Villette". You must read it.'Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, c.29 April 1850: 'I have seen some extracts from "Shirley" in which you talk of women working.'Mary Taylor Charlotte BronteShirley (extracts)Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Charlotte Bronte, 25 April 1850:

'I have seen some extracts from "Shirley" in which you talk of women working. And this first...		Mary Taylor Charlotte BrontëShirley (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but nonsense of a genius & not without a certain point. ...Leslie Stephen Thomas CarlyleShooting NiagaraPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I should have read S.& H. ["Shops and Houses"] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the poi...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonShops and HousesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonShops and HousesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regiment stationed there. JOHNSON. "It is sad stuff, Sir,...Samuel Johnson Thomas MorerShort Account of ScotlandPrint: Book


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