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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote Print: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794 'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on at least with Spanish, for I have been able to meet w...Elizabeth Smith Miguel de CervantesDon QuixottePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was w...Elizabeth Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage befor...Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1600-1699'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how people may be surprized'Samuel Pepys Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Persiles & Sigismunda'Mary Shelley Miguel de CervantesLos rabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia sep...Print: Book
1800-1849'Don Quixote & Calderon'Mary Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dicti...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die a violent death, as has been generally fancied. He ...Samuel Johnson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's "Treasure Isl...Charles Causley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & readings were given by Mrs Rawlings, Alfred Rawlings, Mr...Alfred Rawlings Miguel de Cervantes Print: Book


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