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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tales from Shakespeare".'Spike Mays Jonathan Swift"Gulliver's Travels"Print: Book
1700-1799"Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of...William Wordsworth Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. A...Hugh Miller Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn found them out & recommended them, & if the judgement ...Jane Austen Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ...William Edwin Adams Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished, afterwards, "Gulliver's Travels". Could this severe satire....'Thomas Green Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
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1800-1849
Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure pleasures of taste and beneficence, at a period of life...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Somebody sent Ben an unexpurgated edition of Gulliver for Xmas. He had read most of it before I discovered. It was disguised as a child's book.'Benedict Nicolson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...] '[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly acted like Mortals until about thirty Years old, aft...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of ...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several ...Dorothy Brain Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book



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