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

	1700-1799 1800-1849	'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in motion an early ferment: "New ideas from the perusal o...	John Clare	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?At length, "Robinson Crusoe" ? that ever-exciting day dream of boys ? fell in our way. I read it to him, as I had done the others, and for a long time both Sam?s ideas a...	Samuel Bamford	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to rea...	Thomas Carter	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...	Christopher Thomson	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Among these books was a brief abstract of that amusing story "Robinson Crusoe", which I read with much eagerness and satisfaction. I only regretted its brevity, for I be...	Thomas Carter	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read a little of "Robinson Crusoe" that is how I spent my evening'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if not all of which, as well as of his other works, he...	James Boswell	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t...	Mary	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'John is certainly much quicker in reading than he was. He has read very hard and taken up the Book frequently hi...	John Wordsworth	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... in 1811 S[ara] H[utchinson] mentioned that Herbert Southey "can read Robinson Crusoe or any Book".'	Herbert Southey	Daniel Defoe	Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in 1804 [Robert] Southey noted that Hartley Coleridge "never has read, nor will read, beyond Robinson's departure from the island."'	Hartley Coleridge	Daniel Defoe	Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by...	Print: 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	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...	Joseph Barker	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'the only fiction [Robert] Roberts read as a boy was an abridged Welsh-language Robinson Crusoe'	Robert Roberts	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the Celestial City; mused over his hair-breadth escapes,...	William Heaton	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'the book that featured most prominently in [Joseph Greenwood's] memoirs was a cheap edition of Robinson Crusoe. "To me Daniel Defoe's book was a wonderful thing, it open...	Joseph Greenwood	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: 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	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: 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	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I got my [first] peep into "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Arabian Nights" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even though these two wonderful books have been read and e...	William Tinsley	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of "Robinson Crusoe", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels,...	Christopher Thomson	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book

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