√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form 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 Julia William Makepeace Thackeray Virginians, The Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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 Life Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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 Bede Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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 / periodical1850-1899 '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 / periodical1850-1899 '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 / periodical1850-1899 '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 Trollope Framley Parsonage Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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 Thackeray Lovel the Widower Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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 Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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 Dickens All the Year Round [article] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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 / periodical1850-1899 '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 Jenkin Cousin Stella Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Trollope Framley Parsonage Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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 Register Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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 Mori Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Norton New Life of Dante, An Essay with Translations Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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, The Print : Book1850-1899 '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. Shuttleworth Scarsworth Print : Book1850-1899 '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 : Book1850-1899 '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 Guardian Print : Newspaper