| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings... | Jane Austen | Samuel Egerton Brydges | Arthur Fitz-Albini: a Novel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.' | Jane Austen | James Boswell | Tour to the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There was a very long list of Arrivals here, in the Newspaper yesterday, so that we need not immediately dread absolu... | Jane Austen | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She read sermons and other religious books, her favourite sermons being "professedly practical", without too much "Re... | Jane Austen | Thomas Sherlock | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'. | Jane Austen | unknown | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Maria Edgeworth | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Ann Radcliffe | [Gothic novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Regina Maria Roche | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Charlotte Smith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Jane West | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | | Lady's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially ad... | Jane Austen | Charlotte Lennox | Female Quixote, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially ad... | Jane Austen | Eaton Barrett | The Heroine | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richards... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'So much for Mrs Piozzi. I had some thoughts of writing the whole of my letter in her stile [sic], but I beleive [sic]... | Jane Austen | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn fo... | Jane Austen | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter... | Jane Austen | Madame de Genlis | les Veillees du Chateau | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Henry's History of England, which I will repeat to you in any manner you may prefer, either in a loose, ... | Jane Austen | Robert Henry | History of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.' | Jane Austen | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was s... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement f... | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The papers announce the Marriage of the Rev: Edward Bather, Rector of some place in Shropshire to a Miss Emma Halifax.' | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read ... | Jane Austen | Thomas Gisborne | An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I could not do without a Syringa, for the sake of Cowper's Line.' | Jane Austen | William Cowper | The Task | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What a Contretems [sic]! in the language of France; What an unluckiness! in that of Mde Duval.' | Jane Austen | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading ... | Jane Austen | Sarah Harriet Burney | Clarentine, A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear ... | Jane Austen | Samuel Johnson | Letter to Boswell, 4 July 1774 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are reading Barretti's other book, & find him dreadfully abusive of poor Mr Sharpe.' | Jane Austen | Joseph Baretti | Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Mr Jefferson's case to Edward [Austen], and he desires to have his name set down for a guinea and his wif... | Jane Austen | Revd T. Jefferson | Request for subscribers for "Two Sermons" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'This is a sad story about Mrs Powlett. I should not have suspected her of such a thing. - She staid the Sacrament I r... | Jane Austen | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the subject of matrimony, I must notice a wedding in the Salisbury paper, which has amused me very much, Dr Phillo... | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Has your newspaper given a sad story of a Mrs Middleton, wife of a Farmer in Yorkshire, her sister & servant being al... | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athen... | Jane Austen | Sydney Owenson | The Wild Irish Girl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Portsmouth paper gave a melancholy history of a poor Mad Woman, escaped from Confinement, who said her Husband & ... | Jane Austen | | Hampshire Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I congratulate Edward [JA's brother] on the Weald of Kent Canal-Bill being put off till another Session, as I have ju... | Jane Austen | | Newspaper report on Parliamentary Sessions | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'You certainly must have heard, before I can tell you, that Col. Orde has married our cousin, Margt Beckford, the Marc... | Jane Austen | | Newspaper report | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.' | Jane Austen | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In a joking letter to her niece, Anna Austen, Jane Austen writes, 'Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be convey... | Jane Austen | Rachel Hunter | Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Sir Charles William Pasley | Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Claudius Buchanan | Christian Researches in Asia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ... | Jane Austen | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P... | Jane Austen | John Bigland | System of Geography and History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P... | Jane Austen | John Barrow (ed.) | Lord Macartney's Journal of the Embassy to China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P... | Jane Austen | Sir George Steuart Mackenzie | Travels in Iceland | 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 | 'I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her ... | Jane Austen | Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel | published letter about the status of her marriage to the Prince of Wales | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wonder whether you happened to see Mr Blackall's marriage in the Papers last Janry. [italics] We [end italics] did... | Jane Austen | | Hampshire Telegraph, Births, Marriages and Deaths section | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny & I are to go on with Modern Europe together, but hitherto have advanced only 25 Pages, something or other has ... | Jane Austen | John Bigland | Letters on the Modern History and Political Aspect of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'I am now alone in the Library, Mistress of all I survey - at least I may say so & repeat the whole poem if I like it,... | Jane Austen | William Cowper | Verses supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in... | Jane Austen | | Acts 27:44 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am looking over Self-Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its' [sic] being an excellently-meant, elegantly-w... | Jane Austen | Mary Brunton | Self Control | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'No; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he prob... | Jane Austen | George Crabbe | preface to The Borough | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me... | Jane Austen | Eaton Stannard Barrett | The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is Eveng. We have drank tea & I have torn through the 3d vol. of the Heroine, & do not think it falls off. - It is... | Jane Austen | Eaton Stannard Barrett | The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina, third volume | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you. I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have no... | Jane Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Anna - I am very much obliged to you for sending your M.S. [a story by Anna Austen that remained unfinished a... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have just finished the 1st of the 3 Books I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday; I read it aloud - & we are al... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now we have finished the 2d book - or rather the 5th - I do think you had better omit Lady Helena's postscript; - to ... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are reading the last book. - They must be two days going from Dawlish to Bath; They are nearly 100 miles apart'. | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday. We finished it last night, after our return from drinking tea at the Great House. - The last Chapter does n... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been very much amused by your 3 books, but I have a good many criticisms to make - more than you will like [e... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Anna, I hope you do not depend on having your book back again immediately. I keep it that your G:Mama may he... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - it is not fair. - He has Fame & Profit enough a... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott | [Poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any.' | Jane Austen | Thomas Sherlock | Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Anna, I have been very far from finding your Book an Evil I assure you; I read it immediately - & with great ... | Jane Austen | Anna Lefroy | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivi... | Jane Austen | Caroline Austen | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Ha... | Jane Austen | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'My dear Caroline, I am very glad to have an opportunity of answering your agreable [sic] little Letter. You seem to ... | Jane Austen | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St Albin Comtesse de Genlis | Olympe et Theophile | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain o... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott [anon] | review of Emma | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am part... | Jane Austen | Caroline Austen | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We do not much like Mr Cooper's new Sermons; they are fuller of Regeneration & Conversion than ever - with the additi... | Jane Austen | Edward Cooper | Two Sermons Preached at Wolverhampton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it w... | Jane Austen | Henry Austen | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it w... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott | The Antiquary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shi... | Jane Austen | Caroline Austen | unpublished manuscript story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all ... | Jane Austen | Robert Southey | Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dearest Fanny, You are inimitable, irresistable. You are the delight of my Life. Such Letters, such entertaining L... | Jane Austen | Fanny Knight | Letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Samuel Johnson | Prose writings | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
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 |