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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Until then, all the books I possessed had been children's annuals and the like. Except for "Robinson Crusoe", very few of the children's classics had come my way. I had ...Norman Nicholson Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha...William John Brown Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeLife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson...Print: Book
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1900-1945
'[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Pr...Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls w...boys at the Passmore Edwards SettlementDaniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Robinson Crusoe] was Thomas Jordan's favorite book, read through in one sitting at age eleven. The promise of "faraway places fired my imagination" and ultimately inspi...Thomas Jordan Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
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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 DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of 'Robinson' read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up t...anon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of 'Robinson' read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up t...anon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy 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 DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945Either 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 Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me m...Elizabeth Barrett Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849Henry 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 DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: 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 Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel DefoeThe Life and Adventures of Robinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book



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