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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dicti...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but he has the loose, far scattered vitality of the great...Virginia Woolf Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday ...W.H.(Bill) Tilman Miguel (de) CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister ...Janet Case Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to lose his sight [...] He took to a milk diet for some ...Alfred Tennyson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die a violent death, as has been generally fancied. He ...Samuel Johnson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: 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 Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote Print: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever boo...William Wordsworth Miguel de Cervantes SavedraDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu: 'The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Er...William Wordsworth Miguel CervantesDon QuixotePrint: 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 Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: 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 Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book


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