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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for who...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and JuliaWilliam Makepeace ThackerayVirginians, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earne...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Scenes from Clerical LifePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earne...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earne...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]'Amos Barton'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine pr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Mahoney[Inaugural Ode for the Cornhill Magazine in the pe...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine pr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Mahoney[Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart'...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anthony TrollopeFramley ParsonagePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Makepeace ThackerayLovel the WidowerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Skimpole'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensAll the Year Round [article]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her letter in, - I know I can trust you, - and we are just of...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Madame Mohl[review of Mme Lenorment's 'Souvenirs et Correspon...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Mr & Mrs Clarke & Ly Coltman were all full of "Cousin Stella" & I had quite a reflected lustre from the fact that I knew & could tell them all about the authoress'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henrietta Camilla JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to an end, and every one I know is always dreading the ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anthony TrollopeFramley ParsonagePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. The Annual Register has been [italics] carefully [end...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Annual RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]Melle MoriPrint: Book
1850-1899'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] and Italy than anything else; & which I so wished to h...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot NortonNew Life of Dante, An Essay with TranslationsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of you, & am so greedy to read it I can scarcely be gra...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth seeks your acquaintance & society [because] he has a novel, - partly read to Mrs Nicholls the last time she was at Gawthrop, - partly to me, - [i...Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth Sir J.P.K. ShuttleworthScarsworthPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end italics] bad ones; & the parcel contains this book sent ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][anthology of laudatory sonnets]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read them an account of the Ammergau Play, out of the London Guardian that Mr Maltby had lent me; & I think they will both go to one of the Septr Representations'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]London GuardianPrint: Newspaper



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