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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me perceive the enormous intellectual pre-eminence of New...Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1850-1899'Meta & I have read this 1st vol of Rachel Gray - I think it very interesting'Elizabeth and Margaret (Meta) GaskellJulia KavanaghRachel GrayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Miss Jewsbury lay on the floor and read half through the Essays of Elia and called our drawing room "such an ugly room in which we should always be unhappy".'Miss Jewsbury Charles LambEssays of EliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Julius HareGuesses at TruthPrint: Book
1850-1899'Can you tell who wrote the Review of Miss Martineau's letters in the (this week's) Inquirer signed I.R.'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Inquirer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?'Marianne Gaskell [unknown][a history of the French Revolution]Print: Book
1850-1899'The children who like Bessy's Troubles are great geese, & no judges at all, which children generally are, for it is complete rubbish I am sorry to say'.'children', presumably known to Marianne GaskellElizabeth Cleghorn GaskellBessy's Troubles at Home Print: Book
1850-1899'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'.Marianne Gaskell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "Poor Capt Duckworth much lamented both by officers an...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'From what I can judge from the letters Mr Nicholls has entrusted me with, her [Charlotte Bronte's] very earliest way of expressing herself must have been different to co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'The letters Mr Smith does send principally relate to the other Bronte's transactions with Newby, or else they are (very clever) criticism on Thackeray, man and writings....Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Mama is so terribly busy that she really cannot find time to write to you, but she has asked me to do so for her, as she cannot bear that you should remain any longer un...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Ellen Nussey[account of Anne Bronte's death]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'She has also received a packet of letters from Mr Williams (another London publisher, I believe), which she says are almost more beautiful than any others of Miss Bronte...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Miss Bronte in one of her letters to you (Mama [italics] thinks [end italics] written in the year 1835,) gives you some advice as to what books to read. Mama wants to kn...Charlotte Bronte [unknown]['standard works'; not novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Paris to see her [Julia, her daughter, who was unwell] ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Lord Mahon[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][French]Print: Book
1850-1899'I know I shall never be wise enough in a tete a tete with a girl who does not read poetry & novels but Adam Smith, Niall etc. & "has no sense of humour but takes everyth...Miss Thompson Adam Smith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'here is a letter for you, which I opened [italics] verily [end italics] by mistake at first. One came for Florence at the same time which I snatched up and I could not b...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][letter to Marianne Gaskell]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave great delight to my daughter, when they arrived yeste...Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it before long.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Julia Kavanagh[possibly] French Women of LettersPrint: Book


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