√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'I'm glad she [Charlotte Bronte] likes 'North and South'. I did not think Margaret was so over good. What would Miss B. say to Florence Nightingale? I can't imagine!' Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell North and South Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have looked for Mr Macarthey's character in Shirley, and I find it exactly corresponds with what you have told me of Mr Nicholls, & also with what she herself has said... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book1850-1899 'Your kind and racy critiques both give me pleasure and do me good; that is to say, your praise gives me pleasure because it is so sincere and judicious that I value it; ... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Fairbairn [remarks on 'North and South'] Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'I have read [italics] once [end italics] over all the letters you so kindly entrusted me with, and I don't think even you, her most cherished friend, could wish the impr... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte [letters to Ellen Nussey] Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood; however he read 'Little-Dorr... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Dickens Little Dorrit Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I am extremely obliged to you for the pacquet of Miss Bronte's letters which I found here on my return home, too late for Friday's post for me to acknowledge them. I hav... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte [letters to W.S. Williams] Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot tell you how much use it has been to me; my paper mark... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [book on Yorkshire] Print : Book1850-1899 '[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a packet about the size of a lady's travelling writing... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte [manuscripts] Manuscript : books1850-1899 '[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a packet about the size of a lady's travelling writing... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Blake [manuscripts] Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I have read the Professor, - I don't see the objections to its publication that I apprehended, - or at least only such, as the omissions of three or four short ppassages... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte Professor, The Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood; however he read 'Little-Dorr... Mr Seymour Charles Dickens Little Dorrit Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I return to you these verses (of which I have taken a copy) with many thanks. I am always glad of your scraps of intelligence, which come, with their pleasant [italics] ... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [verses] Unknown 1850-1899 'I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life, - & I thought if he were again brought before the p... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte Professor, The Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I looked in last week's Examiner thinking there [italics] might [end italics] be an advertisement of the Professor. When do you think it will be out?' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Examiner, The Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The Professor is curious as indicating strong character & rare faculties on the part of the author; but not interesting as a story. And yet there are parts one would not... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte Professor, The 1850-1899 'I don't think you know how much good your letter did me. In the first place I was really afraid that you did not like my book, because I had never received your usual le... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Fairbairn [letter offering his opinion of Gaskell's biograph... Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell E.B. Eastwick ['ed'] Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohammedan gentleman... Print : Book1850-1899 'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Bombay Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Athenaeum [review of Eastwick's 'Lutfullah'] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Currer Bell [pseud.] Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Print : Book
