| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characte... | Philip Inman | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone throu... | Cassandra Austen | Jane Austen | First Impressions | Manuscript: Book in Manuscript |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", ... | Thomas and Florence Hardy | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", ... | Thomas and Florence Hardy | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", ... | Thomas and Florence Hardy | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth o... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbe... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts ... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride &... | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me muc... | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | " ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a v... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; bo... | Gwen Raverat | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read "Emma" in the evening.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it wit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it wit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cannot help the oozing forth of my Io triumphe?although it is by no means my dearest friend, my turn for writing. ... | Mr Kenyon | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties.... | Francis William Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not so clever as P.&P. - but pleased with it altogether. Liked the character of Fanny. Admired the Portsmouth Scene... | Edward Austen Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interes... | Edward Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interes... | George Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Knight. - Liked it, in many parts, very much indeed, delighted with Fanny; - but not satisfied with the end - w... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Anna liked it better than P.& P. - but not so well as S.&S. - could not bear Fanny. - Delighted with Mrs Norris, the ... | Anna Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs James Austen, very much pleased. Enjoyed Mrs Norris particularly, & the scene at Portsmouth. Thought Henry Craw... | Anne Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Clewes's objections [to Mansfield Park] much the same as Fanny's [Fanny Knight]'. | [Miss] Clewes | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Lloyd preferred it altogether to either of the others [Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility]. - Deligh... | Martha Lloyd | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.' | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P. - Fond of Fanny. - Delighted much in Mr Rus... | Cassandra Elizabeth Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Eldest Brother - a warm admirer of it in general. - Delighted with the Portsmouth scene.' | James Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward - Much like his Father. - Objected to Mrs Rushworth's Elopement as unnatural'. | James Edward Austen-Leigh | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr B.L. - Highly pleased with Fanny Price - & a warm admirer of the Portsmouth Scene. - Angry with Edmund for not be... | Benjamin Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Burdett - Did not like it so well as P. & P.' | [Miss] Burdett | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it [Mansfield Park] better than P. & P.' | [Mrs James] Tilson | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Cage - did not much like it - not to be compared to P. & P. - nothing interesting in the Characters - Language ... | Fanny Cage | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr & Mrs Cooke - very much pleased with it - particularly with the Manner in which the Clergy are treated. - Mr Cooke... | [Mrs] Cooke | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr & Mrs Cooke - very much pleased with it - particularly with the Manner in which the Clergy are treated. - Mr Cooke... | [Mr] Cooke | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Cooke - quite as much pleased with it, as her Father & Mother; seemed to enter into Lady B.'s character, & enjoy... | Mary Cooke | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Burrel - admired it very much - particularly Mrs Norris & Dr Grant.' | [Miss] Burrel | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Bramstone - much pleased with it; particularly with the character of Fanny, as being so very natural. Thought La... | [Mrs] Bramstone | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M.P. bet... | Augusta Bramstone | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The families at Deane - all pleased with it. Mrs Anna Harwood delighted with Mrs Norris & the green curtain.' | Anna Harwood | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it; - preferred it to either of the others.' | | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Egerton the Publisher - praised it for it's [sic] Morality, & for being so equal a Composition. - No weak parts.' | Thomas Egerton | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Rob: Kerr wrote - "You may be assured I read every line with the greatest interest & am more delighted with it t... | Lady Robert Kerr | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Sharpe - "I think it is excellent - & of it's [sic] good sense & moral Tendency there can be no doubt. - Your Ch... | [Miss] Sharpe | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Carrick. - "All who think deeply and feel much will give the Preference to Mansfield Park."' | [Mrs] Carrick | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr J. Plumptre. - "I never read a novel which interested me so very much throughout, the characters are all so remark... | J. Plumptre | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike ... | Sir James Langham | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike ... | [Mr] Sanford | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Alethea Bigg. - "I have read M.P. & heard it very much talked of, very much praised. I like it myself & think it ver... | Alethea Bigg | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles - did not like it near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.' | Charles Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M.P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.' | [Mrs] Dickson | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lefroy - liked it, but thought it a mere Novel.' | [Mrs] Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Portal - admired it very much - objected cheifly [sic] to Edmund's not being brought more forward'. | [Mrs] Portal | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Gordon wrote "In most novels you are amused for the time with a set of Ideal People whom you never think of afte... | Lady Gordon | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Pole wrote, "There is a particular satisfaction in reading all Miss A-s works - they are so evidently written by ... | [Mrs] Pole | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adml Foote - surprised that I had the power of drawing the Portsmouth-Scenes so well.' | [Admiral] Foote | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S. and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.' | [Mrs] Creed | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality i... | Captain Frank Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs F.A. - liked & admired it very much indeed, but must still prefer P & P.' | [Mrs Francis] Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs J. Bridges - preferred it to all the others.' | [Mrs J.] Bridges | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Sharp - better than M.P. - but not so well as P. & P. - pleased with the Heroine for her Originality, delighted ... | [Miss] Sharp | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.' | Cassandra Elizabeth Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny K. - not so well as either P & P or M P. - could not bear Emma herself. Mr Knightley delightful. Should like ... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easil... | James Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easil... | [Mrs James] Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward - preferred it to M.P. - only. - Mr. K liked by every body.' | James Edward Austen-Leigh | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Bigg - not equal to either P & P. - or M.P. - objected to the sameness of the subject (Match-making) all through... | [Miss] Bigg | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to ... | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Lloyd - thought it as [italics] clever [end italics] as either of the others, but did not receive so much pleasu... | Martha Lloyd | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.' | [Mrs] Craven | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.' | [Miss] Craven | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Cage - liked it very much indeed & classed it between P & P & M.P.' | Fanny Cage | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Sherer - did not think it equal to either M P - (which he liked the best of all) or P & P. - Displeased with my pi... | [Mr] Sherer | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Bigg - on reading it a second time, liked Miss Bates much better than at first, & expressed herself as liking al... | Miss Bigg | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The family at Upton Gray - all very amused with it. - Miss Bates a great favourite with Mrs Beaufoy.' | [Mrs] Beaufoy | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spo... | [Mrs] Leigh-Perrot | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spo... | [Mr] Leigh-Perrot | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Countess Craven - admired it very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she ranked as the very first of ... | [Countess] Craven | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Guiton - thought it too natural to be interesting.' | [Mrs] Guiton | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it so well as the others, in fact if she had not known the Author, could hardly have got t... | [Mrs] Digweed | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Terry - admired it very much, particularly Mrs Elton.' | [Miss] Terry | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry Sanford - very much pleased with it - delighted with Miss Bates, but thought Mrs Elton the best-drawn Character... | Henry Sanford | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Haden - [italics] quite [end italics] delighted with it. Admired the Character of Emma.' | [Mr] Haden | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Isabella Herries - did not like it - objected to my exposing the sex in the character of the Heroine - convinced... | Isabella Herries | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all.' | Harriet Moore | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Countess Morley - delighted with it.' | [Countess] Morley | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Cockerelle - liked it so little, that Fanny would not send me his opinion.' | [Mr] Cockerelle | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Dickson - did not much like it - thought it [italics] very [end italics] inferior to P & P. - Liked it the less, ... | [Mrs] Dickson | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' | [Mrs] Brandreth | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr B. Lefroy - thought that if there had been more Incident, it would be equal to any of the others. -The Characters... | Benjamin Lefroy | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it to M.P. - but like[?]d M.P. the least of all.' | [Mrs] Lefroy | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Fowle - read only the first & last Chapters, because he had heard it was not interesting.' | [Mr] Fowle | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it very much, better than MP - & thought I had "brought it all about very cleverly in the ... | [Mrs] Lutley Sclater | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs C. Cage wrote thus to Fanny - "A great many thanks for the loan of "Emma," which I am delighted with. I like it b... | [Mrs C.] Cage | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P & P. - Thought the Authoress wrong, in such times as these, to draw such... | [Mrs] Wroughton | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir J. Langham - thought it much inferior to the others.' | Sir J. Langham | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.' | Francis Jeffrey | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Murden - certainly inferior to all the others.' | [Miss] Murden | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Capt C. Austen wrote - "Emma arrived in time to a moment. I am delighted with her, more so I think than even with my... | Charles Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs D. Dundas - thought it very clever, but did not like it so well as either of the others.' | [Mrs D] Dundas | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I sat up till two, as I did last night, to finish "Pride and Prejudice". This novel I consider as one of the most ex... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read the last volume of "Emma", a novel evincing great good sense, and an acute observation of human l... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading yesterday and to-day "Sense and Sensibility", which I resumed at the second volume. The last volume gre... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the way did you know Miss Austen Authoress of some novels which have a great deal of nature in them - nature in or... | Sir Walter Scott | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice". Th... | Sir Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is no book which that word ["vulgaire"] would suit so little... Every village could furnish matter for a novel ... | Sir James Mackintosh | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You mention Miss Austen; her novels are more true to nature, and have (for my sympathies) passages of finer feeling t... | Robert Southey | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You surprise me greatly by what you say of "Emma" and the other books. They enjoy the highest reputation, and I own,... | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my ... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my ... | William Wordsworth | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading "Emma". Everything Miss Austen writes is clever, but I desiderate something. There is a want of... | John Henry Newman | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-pl... | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Miss Austen's "Emma", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing ... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read a part of "Northanger Abbey", which I do not much like. Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on o... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the p... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished "Mansfield Park", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, ... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have ra... | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" - read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration... | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Ja... | Samuel Langhorne Clemens | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We certainly do not think it ["Mansfield Park"] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...' | Francis William Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ["Mansfield Park" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K. | Edward Austen Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.' | Edward Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.' | George Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny.' | Anna Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny' | Anna Austen | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Lloyd preferred it ["Mansfield Park"] altogether to either of the others'. ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and... | Martha Lloyd | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Lloyd preferred it ["Mansfield Park"] altogether to either of the others'. ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and... | Martha Lloyd | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.' | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.' | Cassandra Elizabeth Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Burdett - Did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.' | [Miss] Burdett | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P. & P.' | [Mrs James] Tilson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Cage - did not much like it ["Mansfield Park"] - not to be compared with P. & P.' | Fanny Cage | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.' | [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.' | [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it ["Mansfield Park"]; preferred it to either of the others.' | | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it ["Mansfield Park"]; preferred it to either of the others.' | | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Sharpe - "I think it "Mansfield Park"] excellent... but since you beg me to be perfectly honest, I must confess ... | [Miss] Sharpe | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read M P["Mansfield Park"]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions to... | Alethea Bigg | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read M P ["Mansfield Park"]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions t... | Alethea Bigg | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles - did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.' | Charles Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.' | [Mrs] Dickson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.' | [Mrs] Creed | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Sherer - did not think it ["Emma"] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.' | [Mr] Sherer | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Sherer - did not think it ["Emma"] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.' | [Mr] Sherer | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabe... | [Mr] Leigh Perrot | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabe... | [Mrs] Leigh Perrot | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Countess Craven - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she rqanked as the very... | [Countess] Craven | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...' | [Mrs] Digweed | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...' | [Mrs] Digweed | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...' | [Mrs] Digweed | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all'. | Harriet Moore | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' | [Mrs] Brandreth | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' | [Mrs] Brandreth | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' | [Mrs] Brandreth | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it ["Emma"] to M.P - but like[d] M.P. least of all.' | [Mrs] Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it ["Emma"] very much, better than M.P.' | [Mrs] Lutley Sclater | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P. & P.' | [Mrs] Wroughton | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read a great deal, among her books being one called "Pride and Prejudice", "Which is at present the fashionable n... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that k... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that k... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ... | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Read "Pride and Prejudice" again last night. I think it as clever as be... | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finish... | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 January 1838: 'Read "Northanger Abbey." Capital: found two touches of pathos.' | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 January 1838: 'Read much of "Emma" this evening'. | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I would not let Martha [Lloyd] read First Impressions [later published as "Pride and Prejudice"] again upon any accou... | Martha Lloyd | Jane Austen | First Impressions | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am gratified by her [Fanny Knight] having pleasure in what I write - but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed t... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | unidentified work in MS | Manuscript: novel in MS |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a novel about young women, which I think now must have been "Sense and Sensibility": I could make nothing o... | Edwin Muir | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Jane Austen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set ... | Jane Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to... | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & F... | Cassandra Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & F... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Robert is delighted with P & P - and really [italics] was [end italics] so as I understand before she knew who w... | Lady Robert Kerr | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And Mr Hastings - I am quite delighted with what such a Man writes about it ["Pride and Prejudice"]. - Henry sent him... | Warren Hastings | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of "Mansfield Park"] till Bentley Green. Henry's approbation hitherto is ... | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry is going on with Mansfield Park; he admires H. Crawford - I mean properly - as a clever, pleasant Man.' | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry has this moment said that he likes my M[ansfield] P[ark] better & better; - he is in the 3d vol. - I beleive [s... | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park (3rd volume) | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry has finished Mansfield Park, & his approbation has not lessened. He found the last half of the last volume [it... | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park (last half of last volume) | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'In addition to their [Mr and Mrs Cooke's] standing claims on me, they admire Mansfield Park exceedingly. Mr Cooke sa... | Mr and Mrs Cooke | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have called upon Miss Dusautoy and Miss Papillon & been very pretty. - Miss D. has a great idea of being Fanny Pri... | [Miss] Dusautoy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your official opinion of the Merits of "Emma", is very valuable & satisfactory.' | John Murray | Jane Austen | Emma | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;... | Prince Regent | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;... | Prince Regent | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;... | Prince Regent | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclinati... | James Stanier Clarke | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You were very good to send me Emma - which I have in no respect deserved. It is gone to the Prince Regent. I have re... | James Stanier Clarke | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 5... J. and I read "Mansfield Park" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as h... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can no longer settle to fiction to anything like the extent I did before the war. Could read nothing but Jane Auste... | | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Jane Austen [?] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 July 1843:
'Mr Kenyon came yesterday -- & he had just been reading, he... | John Kenyon | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave abo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many thanks for the loan of "Emma", which, even amidst languor and depression, forced from me a smile, & af... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle sel... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle sel... | Charlotte Barrett | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end ... | Susan Ferrier | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] ... | Philip Morrell | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 31 March 1940: 'S[ense]. & S[ensibility]. all scenes. very sharp. Surprises. masterly [...] Very dramatic. Plot... | Virginia Woolf | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading Mansfield Park, which more than ever convinces me that Jane Austen is trivial, facetious and commonp... | James Lees-Milne | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898:
'I will tell how I spent my prize money. I got Browning's Poems ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 2 July 1905:
'In the evening I read Elizabeth [employer] "Emma". Liebeth [emp... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day:
... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "Mansfield Park" [Jane Austen]. Proust applied to la petite noblesse de campagne. I also read Aristotle's Et... | Harold Nicolson | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read "Emma", a novel of Miss Austen's? I have seen three or four [italics] Harriet Smiths [end italics] ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much ... | Anne Romilly | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do not oblige him to read any more. - Have mercy on him and tell him the truth [about the authorship of Austen's nove... | Mr Wildman | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Arthur Hallam | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Alfred Tennyson | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Alfred Tennyson | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they ... | Alfred Tennyson | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Blanche Ridges | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Charles Stansfield | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Elizabeth Edminson and Allan Goadby | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Lilian Goadby | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Anne Isabella Milbanke] read a great deal [during season of 1813], among her books being one called Pride and Prejud... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [L... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [L... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 14 March 1826:
'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over... | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[J. G.] Lockhart says that [Scott] used to read aloud from Emma and Northanger Abbey to the
family circle.' | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[J. G.] Lockhart says that [Scott] used to read aloud from Emma and Northanger Abbey to the
family circle.' | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 18 September 1827:
'Whiled away the evening over one of Miss Austen's Novels; there is a truth of painting... | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Gifford to John Murray (1815):
'I have for the first time looked into "Pride and Prejudice;" and it is real... | Wiliam Gifford | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Gifford to John Murray, 29 September 1815:
'I have read "Pride and Prejudice [italics]again[end italics] --... | Wiliam Gifford | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Gifford to John Murray, 29 September 1815:
'I have read "Pride and Prejudice [italics]again[end italics] --... | Wiliam Gifford | Jane Austen | Emma | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray (1817-18):
'Pray send us Miss Austen's novels the moment you can. Lord A... | Lord Abercorn | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When not in the curiosity shops, or examining and washing her [ceramic] purchases in the hotel, Lady Charlotte read a... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 July 1876, from Brussels:
'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaul... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 July 1876, from Brussels:
'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaul... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 July 1876, from Brussels:
'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaul... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 July 1876, from Brussels:
'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaul... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '[Jane Austen] talked freely of her works among her friends, listened to criticism with patient
docility, and read h... | Jane Austen | Jane Austen | fiction writings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Quoted from Mrs Maxwell Scott:
'My cousin, Baroness von Appell (grand-daughter of Sir Walter [Scott]'s brother Thom... | Eliza Scott | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Mary E. Robson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice (Mr Collins proposes) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Victor Alexander | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Mary Pollard | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Francis E. Pollard | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Celia Burrow | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Jane Austen | Love and Friendship | Print: Book |