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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
1900-1945		'Elizabeth Rignall, a London painter's daughter, was not permitted to read anything else on Sundays, so she treated Pilgrim's Progress as a horror comic. Irresistibly dra...Elizabeth Rignall John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious al...Harry West John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When he was jailed during the first World War for refusing...Emrys Daniel Hughes John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anything which appeared to me calculated to remove my doub...Francis Place John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945My recollection of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is a little clearer, as it was the impression of much physical activity and play, such as springing out at Sheila from dark co...Patricia Beer John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat...John Cole John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'At the close of the nineteenth century, on a farm in Derbyshire Peak District, Robinson Crusoe was read aloud every winter and never palled on the audience. As Alison Ut...Alison Uttley John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'in a few days after this I met with a book written by Mr Bunyan the title of the book was the two Covenants in this book the unpardonable Sin was explained this part I s...Joseph Mayett John BunyanTwo covenantsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'George Bernard Shaw John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrims progress and was by a quotation directed to the 33...Joseph Mayett John BunyanPilgrim's progressPrint: Book
1800-1849"When she was seven ... [Frances Power Cobbe's] interest in religious subjects had been activated by hearing Bunyan read aloud to her brothers." Frances Power Cobbe John Bunyan Print: Book
1850-1899"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds...Emmeline Pankhurst John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi...Robert Collyer John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Pr...John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'One of my aunts, living some two miles away, I discovered had a copy of Bunyan's immortal dream. The Bible and the pilgrim. Bunyan, for some reason, probably because of ...Thomas Burt John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book


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