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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement for him - as I am very anxious for his being at once ...James anon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 28 December 1837: 'Read Defoe's "Plague." Was somewhat disappointed [...] The best part is where he describes the reception of the news of th...Harriet Martineau Daniel DefoeA Journal of the Plague YearPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel DefoeThe Life and Adventures of Robinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'Until then, all the books I possessed had been children's annuals and the like. Except for "Robinson Crusoe", very few of the children's classics had come my way. I had ...Norman Nicholson Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through s...Thomas A. Jackson Daniel Defoe[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read-of course you have though-Defoe?s history of the Devil? What a capital thing it is. I bought it for a couple of shillings yesterday morning, and have b...Charles Dickens Daniel DefoeThe Political History of the Devil, as well Ancien...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Wednesday, 7th April, Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-health. Read ? ?Journal of the Plague Year? (Defoe)'. Gerald Moore Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague YearPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read a little of "Robinson Crusoe" that is how I spent my evening'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of 'Robinson' read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up t...anon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of 'Robinson' read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up t...anon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I think it may do very well for reading out, which I be...Sydney Smith Daniel DefoeColonel Jack - The History and Remarkable Life Of ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Suetonius and Defoe on the Plague'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Defoe'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or ...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Robinson Crusoe'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeLife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeLife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson...Print: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeLife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Treatise on Magic & Malthus'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeSystem of Magick, A; or, a History of the black ar...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me m...Elizabeth Barrett Daniel DefoeMemoirs of a CavalierPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me m...Elizabeth Barrett Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book


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