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

	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
	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
	1850-1899	'I tell you it [Robinson Crusoe] is a grand book . . . I am reading it a second time, and I think I like it better than I did at first. Every boy should get it. You know ...		Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	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
	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
	1800-1849	'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement for him - as I am very anxious for his being at once ...	James anon	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	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	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'One young man, a collier . . . was seen reading the war news to a group of men just up out of the pit. The newspaper had been passed on by a friend in the incoming shift...		Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	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	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Robinson Crusoe'	Mary Shelley	Daniel Defoe	Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'	Mary Shelley	Daniel Defoe	Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson...	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
	1900-1945	'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man...	Edward Morgan Forster	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man...	Edward Morgan Forster	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...	George Macaulay	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	'Sunday August 20th. [...] Read Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe.'	Claire Clairmont	Johann David Wyss	The Family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Fathe...	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
	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
	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

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