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

	1800-1849	Elizabeth 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 Defoe	A Journal of the Plague Year	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls w...	boys at the Passmore Edwards Settlement	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpid...	Virginia Woolf	Daniel Defoe	A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the first place you say you do not call The 3 paths a nov...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Daniel Defoe	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...	Mrs Weddell	Daniel Defoe	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Moll Flanders, remarking upon the work as 'A puzzling b...	Edward Morgan Forster	Daniel Defoe	Moll Flanders	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man...	Edward Morgan Forster	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man...	Edward Morgan Forster	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...	Tennyson children (boys)	Daniel Defoe		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if not all of which, as well as of his other works, he...	Samuel Johnson	Daniel Defoe		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if not all of which, as well as of his other works, he...	James Boswell	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account of Lord Peterborough that I have happened to meet wit...	Lord Eliot	Daniel Defoe	Memoirs of Captain George Carleton	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account of Lord Peterborough that I have happened to meet wit...	Samuel Johnson	Daniel Defoe	Memoirs of Captain George Carleton	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire of London - De Foe's Plague is still stronger but th...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Daniel Defoe	Journal of the Plague Year	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 September 1760:] 'I have picked up a very strange [book], but which, with some faults that would make it dangerous to some so...	Catherine Talbot	Daniel Defoe	The Family Instructor	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35. Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved. 2. The Secretary th...	Victor Alexander	Daniel Defoe	A Journal of the Plague Year	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I have been reading "Robinson Crusoe". It is a splendid story. But I think Robinson need not have stayed so long on the island. He made a boat and hoisted a sail, and I ...	Andrew J.C.	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I tell you it [Robinson Crusoe] is a grand book . . . I am reading it a second time, and I think I like it better than I did at first. Every boy should get it. You know ...		Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'One young man, a collier . . . was seen reading the war news to a group of men just up out of the pit. The newspaper had been passed on by a friend in the incoming shift...		Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For weeks after reading that book [i.e. Robinson Crusoe], I lived as if in a dream; indeed I scarcely dreamt of anything else at night. I went to sleep with the cave, it...	Letitia Elizabeth Landon	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book

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