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Keyword (in Evidence): quixote
Author: Cervantes
Title of text being read: Don Quixote
Form(s) of text: Print - Book, Newspaper, Pamphlet, Serial / periodical, Unknown
Century/ies of experience: 1500-1599, 1600-1699, 1700-1799, 1800-1849, 1850-1899, 1900-1945

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday ...W.H.(Bill) Tilman Miguel (de) CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister ...Janet Case Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's "Treasure Isl...Charles Causley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'A good many English here. We stare and are silent, following the manners of our own race. Don Quixote and walking are my only friends.'John Masefield Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book


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