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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1900-1945	Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...	Patricia Beer	Charles Kingsley	Westward Ho!	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...	Patricia Beer	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...	Patricia Beer	Charles Kingsley	The Water Babies	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a young girl's feet in a missionary book about China, ...	Patricia Beer		unknown [missionary book about China]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a young girl's feet in a missionary book about China, ...	Patricia Beer	Hans Christian Anderson	The Little Mermaid	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In 'The Ugly Duckling' the meaning was something that in my own way I thought about much of the time: I was destined for a higher sphere and would be appreciated when I a...	Patricia Beer	Hans Christian Anderson	The Ugly Duckling	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Of course the book I read most consistently throughout these years was the Bible, but its influence on me, though obviously great, was not directly literary. I never thou...	Patricia Beer		The Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...	Patricia Beer	Hesba Stretton	Little Meg's Children	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...	Patricia Beer	Hesba Stretton	Jessica's First Prayer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...	Patricia Beer	Mrs O.F. Walton	Christie's Old Organ; or, Home Sweet Home	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...	Patricia Beer	Amy Le Feuvre	[various, unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of...	Patricia Beer	L.M. Montgomery	Anne of Green Gables	Print: Book
	1900-1945	After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of...	Patricia Beer	L.M. Montgomery	Emily of New Moon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	It was after our second family holiday in the West Highlands of Scotland, when I was thirteen, that someone recommended that we should all read 'The Flight of the Heron' ...	Patricia Beer	D.K. Broster	The Flight of the Heron	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...	Harriet Beer	D.K. Broster	The Flight of the Heron	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...	Harriet Beer	D.K. Broster	The Gleam in the North	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...	Harriet Beer	D.K. Broster	The Dark Mile	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...	Patricia Beer	D.K. Broster	The Dark Mile	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...	Patricia Beer	D.K. Broster	The Gleam in the North	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sheila read 'The Flight of the Heron' too, but was less impressed. I think she realised how I felt; she once teased me about it.	Sheila Beer	D.K. Broster	The Flight of the Heron	Print: Book

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