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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK

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

		'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot" with "some appreciation of style", enough to recog...	George Acorn	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...	Daphne du Maurier	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave him the face of our own Blind Man' [seen regularly in ...	Gwen Raverat	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's "Treasure Isl...	Charles Causley	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield obtained his first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" on the Conway and was soon enraptured by the possibility that such South Sea adventures m...	John Masefield	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My brothers and I have lived the book ["Treasure Island"] many times and the Bois de Boulogne is full of places that we re-christened with Treasure Island names such as ...	Arthur Vanson	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrive...	Edwin Muir	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The ... grandiloquent "education programme" we were able to satisfy sufficiently. A number of the "boys" were barely literate and Miss Nettleton could deal with the thre...	Irene Nettleton	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...	members of XII Book Club	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...	Rose Macaulay	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown ...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	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	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they were called. The only boy present was sitting, deep...	anon	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they were called. The only boy present was sitting, deep...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	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	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...	Margaret Wharton	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book

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