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

	1900-1945	Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...	Patricia Beer	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David Copperfield. His parents punished him when they lea...	George Acorn	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one...		Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and the first violinist of a visiting orchestra. He ... e...	Neville Cardus	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son ... who was looked after by an aged housekeeper ['an ...	Florence Murray	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfield" and then it had to be in secret' (p.7).'	Mary Paley Marshall	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga...	H. M. Swanwick	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...	Vera Brittain	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled that, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East ...	George Acorn	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which ...	Gwen Raverat	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "...	Norman Nicholson	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...	Thomas A. Jackson	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into volumes
	1900-1945	'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly or clamorously, but silently and with an intensity of...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about him, except playfully, in print. I got fairly stuck i...	Arnold Bennett	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfield, and your note. Oh, dear! I have been so whirled...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936: 'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost complete satisfaction. I'd forgotten how magnificent it ...	Virginia Woolf	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.'	Virginia Woolf	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book

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