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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
 
1900-1945'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha...William John Brown James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1800-1849'The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who has written the spy, and the Last of the Mohicans, &...Sarah Harriet Burney James Fenimore CooperSpy, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who has written the spy, and the Last of the Mohicans, &...Sarah Harriet Burney James Fenimore CooperLast of the Mohicans, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". ...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". ...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe DeerslayerPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". ...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe PrairiePrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 28 January 1828: 'I have read Cooper's Prairie, better I think than his Red Rover in which you never got foot on shore and to understand entirely the incidents...Walter Scott James Fenimore CooperPrairiePrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe Deerslayer or The First WarpathPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe Pathfinder or The Inland SeaPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford James Fenimore CooperThe Two AdmiralsPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford James Fenimore CooperThe Deerslayer, or, The First WarpathPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "O! Mr. Dilly-you must know that an English Benedictine Monk at Paris has translated "The Duke of Berwick's Memoirs", from the original French, and has sent the...Samuel Johnson James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of BerwickMemoirs of the Marshall Duke of BerwickManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introduced him to Greek mythology, "which in time brought ...Thomas A. Jackson James George Frazer"The Golden Bough"Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Victor Alexander James George FrazerFolklore of the Old TestamentUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

Ethel C. Stevens James Henry DuveenCollections and Recollections: a century and a hal...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Political Justice & the empire of the Nairs'.Mary Godwin James Henry LawrenceEmpire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tuckey's Voyage to the Congo or Zaire, seems to have brought on the mortality that precailed in his crew by sleeping too much in the open air, by the quantity of wo...Benjamin Newton James Hingston TuckeyNarrative of an expedition to explore the river ZaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the copy of your book which I have read with the greatest of interest and pleasure.'Joseph Conrad James Johnston AbrahamA Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far EastPrint: Book


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