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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
 
1800-1849'Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote Print: 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
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was w...Elizabeth Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on board boat travelling up 'valley of the Mohawk']: he...Edward Trelawny Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu: 'The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Er...William Wordsworth Miguel 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


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