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

	1850-1899 1900-1945	'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I went at once to the bookseller's which sold "The Penn...	Edwin Muir	Matthew Arnold	[selection of poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I went at once to the bookseller's which sold "The Penn...	Edwin Muir	William Shakespeare	As You Like It	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I went at once to the bookseller's which sold "The Penn...	Edwin Muir	William Morris	The Earthly Paradise	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but I found it was a shilling and threepence and I had t...	Edwin Muir	[unknown]	[book on Wallace and Bruce]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...	Edwin Muir	Victor Hugo	Notre Dame de Paris	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...	Edwin Muir	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...	Edwin Muir	Thomas Carlyle	French Revolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac issues by "The Orkney Herald". It was an account of th...	Edwin Muir	[unknown]	[story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Isl...	Print: Serial / periodical, almanac
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwo...	Joseph Stamper	Edward L. Wheeler	Deadwood Dick	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwo...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	Bronco Bill	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwo...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	Jack Wright	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...	Joseph Stamper	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Hiawatha	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...	Joseph Stamper	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Evangeline	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...	Joseph Stamper	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...	Joseph Stamper	John Keats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...	Joseph Stamper	Homer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...	Joseph Stamper	Pliny the Younger	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...	Joseph Stamper	Aesop	Fables	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'When, a year later, a senior apprentice -a Clarion Scout -gave me a copy of the penny edition of Blatchford's "Merrie England" of which he had sold a large quantity "rou...	Thomas A. Jackson	Robert Blatchford	Merrie England	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in Lubbock's "hundred". It took time, of course: it wa...	Thomas A. Jackson	George Grote	History of Greece	Print: Book

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