√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold of the Young Protector; it is too old a book to be ... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Catherine Cuthbertson Santo Sebastiano: or, The Young Protector Print : Book1850-1899 'they, the Scotts, where [sic] in a state of delight about Esmond, which Thackeray had given them' the Scotts William Makepeace Thackeray Henry Esmond Print : Book1850-1899 'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the... Margaret Emily Gaskell John Ruskin Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Print : Book1850-1899 'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Ruskin Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening I went to the Club & had a long read, got home by about nine o'clock' John Buckley Castieau [n/a] [unknown] Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, The [review of a Thackeray book, perhaps Pe... Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Whewell Fraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorla... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Guardian, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland C... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'from an accidental copy of the Leader I learn that a fourth edition [of Mary Barton] is coming out' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Leader, The Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlas, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cott... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Ruskin Modern Painters Print : Book1850-1899 [Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the... Charlotte Bronte [reviews of Jane Eyre] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 [Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the... Patrick Bronte Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1850-1899 'They used to read to each other when they had written so much. Their father never knew a word about it.' the Bronte sisters Bronte [works by all three sisters] Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 ''Libbie Marsh' I send too; one of my cousins liked it so much that I gave it to her, and she published it on her own behalf'. Fanny Elizabeth Gaskell Libbie Marsh's Three Eras Print : Book1850-1899 'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman's soul, - in liking Modern Painters, and the idea o... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Ruskin Modern Painters Print : Book1850-1899 'I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I get perplexed sometimes. 'Do the duty that lies neares... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Print : Book1850-1899 'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that striking and curious sermon of Mr Maurice's, entitled ... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick Denison Maurice [Sermon on 'Religion versus God'] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home'? It is very painful, and from the impression of ... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Caroline Emelia Stephen Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home Print : Book1850-1899 'I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) but don't think I've fairly read it yet!' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell W.C. DeVane [review of Browning's 'Christmas Eve and Easter-Da... Print : Serial / periodical