√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 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 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Thomas a Kempis The Imitation of Christ Print : Book1900-1945 '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 William Shakespeare Sonnets Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Alfred Lord Tennyson Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Robert Browning Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Francis Turner Palgrave Golden Treasury (ed.) Print : Book1900-1945 '[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ... Philip Inman Charlotte Bronte Villette Print : Book1900-1945 '[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ... Philip Inman Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 '[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ... Philip Inman Jane Austen [novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neit... Percy Wall Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab Print : Unknown1900-1945 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neit... Percy Wall Ralph Waldo Emerson Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neit... Percy Wall Thomas Babington Macaulay Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neit... Percy Wall Francis Bacon Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neit... Percy Wall William Shakespeare Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neit... Percy Wall Charles Lamb Print : Book1900-1945 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll... Emrys Daniel Hughes Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Book1900-1945 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll... Emrys Daniel Hughes Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy Print : Book1900-1945 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll... Emrys Daniel Hughes Thomas More Utopia Print : Book1900-1945 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll... Emrys Daniel Hughes Herbert George Wells The World Set Free Print : Book1900-1945 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll... Emrys Daniel Hughes [biography of William Penn] Print : Book1900-1945 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll... Emrys Daniel Hughes Walt Whitman Print : Book1900-1945 '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe... Emrys Daniel Hughes Thomas Babington Macaulay Print : Book1900-1945 '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe... Emrys Daniel Hughes James Anthony Froude Print : Book1900-1945 '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe... Emrys Daniel Hughes John Richard Green Print : Book1900-1945 '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe... Emrys Daniel Hughes Thorold Rogers Six Centuries of Work and Wages Print : Book1900-1945 '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe... Emrys Daniel Hughes Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr... Jack Lawson Thomas Babington Macaulay Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr... Jack Lawson John Richard Green Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr... Jack Lawson Edward Gibbon [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman ... Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr... Jack Lawson John Lothrop Motley The Rise of the Dutch Republic Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr... Jack Lawson William Hickling Prescott The Conquest of Mexico Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr... Jack Lawson William Hickling Prescott The Conquest of Peru Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr... Jack Lawson Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution Print : Book1900-1945 'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: "Then one could look at life and af... Jack Lawson Karl Marx Print : Book1900-1945 'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: "Then one could look at life and af... Jack Lawson Lewis Carroll Print : Book1900-1945 [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact.... Alice Foley Karl Marx Print : Book1900-1945 [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact.... Alice Foley William Morris Print : Book1900-1945 [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact.... Alice Foley William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Print : Book1900-1945 [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact.... Alice Foley Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 'Her first WEA summer scool at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions r... Alice Foley Robert Browning 'Bishop Blougram's Apology' Print : Book1900-1945 'Her first WEA summer school at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions ... Alice Foley Robert Browning 'The Ring and the Book' Print : Book1900-1945 '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic ta... Chaim Lewis Robert Herrick Print : Book1900-1945 '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic ta... Chaim Lewis William Wordsworth 'Daffodils' Print : Book1900-1945 '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic ta... Chaim Lewis Charles Lamb Print : Book1900-1945 '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic ta... Chaim Lewis William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Print : Book1900-1945 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st... Chaim Lewis Leo Tolstoy Print : Book1900-1945 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st... Chaim Lewis Fyodor Dostoevsky Print : Book1900-1945 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st... Chaim Lewis Ivan Turgenev Print : Book1900-1945 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st... Chaim Lewis Alexander Pushkin Print : Book1900-1945 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st... a revolutionary Russian rag merchant Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gre... George Gregory Samuel Smiles Self Help Print : Book1900-1945 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gre... George Gregory John Harries Print : Book1900-1945 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gr... George Gregory Jack and The Ostrich Print : Book1900-1945 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gr... George Gregory Charles Monroe Sheldon The Crucifixion of Philip Strong Print : Book1900-1945 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gr... George Gregory Strongdold the Gladiator Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned to his old school for evening classes in chemistry, a... George Gregory Charles Lyell Principles of Geology Print : Book1900-1945 'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned to his old school for evening classes in chemistry, a... George Gregory [book of world history] Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong George Bernard Shaw Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Herbert George Wells Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Arnold Bennett Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong [Marxist Economics] Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Aldous Huxley Brave New World Print : Book1900-1945 '[Through the Women's Co-operative Guild, Deborah Smith] began reading poetry and, at age fifty one, discovered her own spiritual longings in Tennyson:
Break, break, br... Deborah Smith Alfred Lord Tennyson 'Break, break, break' Print : Book1900-1945 [Alice Foley's illiterate mother objected to silent reading but responded well to Alice's reading of Alice in Wonderland]: "To my surprise, mother entered quite briskly i... Alice Foley Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Print : Book1900-1945 '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a... Arthur Conan Doyle Print : Book1900-1945 '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a... The Family Reader Print : Book, Serial / periodical1900-1945 '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a... Harry Burton Jules Verne Journey to the Centre of the Earth Print : Book1900-1945 '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a... family of Harry Burton Chips Print : Book, Serial / periodical1900-1945 '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a... family of Harry Burton The Butterfly Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe... Herbert Hodge William Makepeace Thackeray Barry Lyndon Print : Book1900-1945 '"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe... Herbert Hodge Emma Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel Print : Book1900-1945 '"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe... Herbert Hodge John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1900-1945 '"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe... Herbert Hodge Harry Blyth [Sexton Blake stories] Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 'Elizabeth Rignall, a London painter's daughter, was not permitted to read anything else on Sundays, so she treated Pilgrim's Progress as a horror comic. Irresistibly dra... Elizabeth Rignall John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1900-1945 'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious al... Harry West Sigmund Freud Print : Book1900-1945 'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious al... Harry West Carl Jung Print : Book1900-1945 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When he was jailed during the first World War for refusing... Emrys Daniel Hughes John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1900-1945 'Jailed for sufragette disruptions, millworker Annie Kenney rediscovered the Bible, "and I interpreted it quite differently in prison to the way I had interpreted it outs... Annie Kenney [Bible] Print : Book1900-1945 'Despite the disapproval of her comrade Palme Dutt, Helen Crawfurd found Communist propaganda in Scripture... According to her unauthorized version, "the Lamb dumb before... Helen Crawfurd [Bible - Psalms] Print : Book1900-1945 When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that her father had read 'The Blue Lagoon' and thought it ... Henry De Vere Stacpoole The Blue Lagoon Print : Book1900-1945 When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that her father had read 'The Blue Lagoon' and thought it ... Betty Martin Henry De Vere Stacpoole The Blue Lagoon Print : Book1900-1945 girls' school stories came in for heavy and sustained attack, and at one stage in my life I painfully hankered after them. There was one in particular, 'Ursula's Last Ter... Patricia Beer Ursula's Last Term Print : Book1900-1945 Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the front room and sometimes, on warm summer evenings, in t... Harriet Beer Coming Through the Rye Print : Book1900-1945 Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the front room and sometimes, on warm summer evenings, in t... Harriet Beer Gene Stratton-Porter Freckles Print : Book1900-1945 in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' there was the key line, 'That demmed elusive Pimpernel'; and, of course, 'demmed' would never do, so Mother substituted 'awful'. I think she de... Harriet Beer Baroness Emmuska Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel Print : Book1900-1945 My recollection of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is a little clearer, as it was the impression of much physical activity and play, such as springing out at Sheila from dark co... Patricia Beer John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1900-1945 For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" nor "Winne-the-Pooh", nor any Beatrix Potter -and wh... Patricia Beer Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows Print : Book1900-1945 For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" nor "Winne-the-Pooh", nor any Beatrix Potter -and wh... Patricia Beer A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh Print : Book1900-1945 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 : Book1900-1945 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 Louisa May Alcott Little Women Print : Book1900-1945 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 Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1900-1945 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 Walter Scott Ivanhoe Print : Book1900-1945 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 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1900-1945 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 Charles Kingsley Westward Ho! Print : Book1900-1945 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 Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Print : Book1900-1945 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 Charles Kingsley The Water Babies Print : Book1900-1945 Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a young girl's feet in a missionary book about China, ... Patricia Beer unknown [missionary book about China] Print : Book1900-1945 Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a young girl's feet in a missionary book about China, ... Patricia Beer Hans Christian Anderson The Little Mermaid Print : Book1900-1945 In 'The Ugly Duckling' the meaning was something that in my own way I thought about much of the time: I was destined for a higher sphere and would be appreciated when I a... Patricia Beer Hans Christian Anderson The Ugly Duckling Print : Book1900-1945 Of course the book I read most consistently throughout these years was the Bible, but its influence on me, though obviously great, was not directly literary. I never thou... Patricia Beer The Bible Print : Book1900-1945 Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o... Patricia Beer Hesba Stretton Little Meg's Children Print : Book1900-1945 Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o... Patricia Beer Hesba Stretton Jessica's First Prayer Print : Book1900-1945 Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o... Patricia Beer Mrs O.F. Walton Christie's Old Organ; or, Home Sweet Home Print : Book1900-1945 Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o... Patricia Beer Amy Le Feuvre [various, unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of... Patricia Beer L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables Print : Book1900-1945 After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of... Patricia Beer L.M. Montgomery Emily of New Moon Print : Book1900-1945 It was after our second family holiday in the West Highlands of Scotland, when I was thirteen, that someone recommended that we should all read 'The Flight of the Heron' ... Patricia Beer D.K. Broster The Flight of the Heron Print : Book1900-1945 My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,... Harriet Beer D.K. Broster The Flight of the Heron Print : Book1900-1945 My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,... Harriet Beer D.K. Broster The Gleam in the North Print : Book1900-1945 My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,... Harriet Beer D.K. Broster The Dark Mile Print : Book1900-1945 My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,... Patricia Beer D.K. Broster The Dark Mile Print : Book1900-1945 My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,... Patricia Beer D.K. Broster The Gleam in the North Print : Book1900-1945 Sheila read 'The Flight of the Heron' too, but was less impressed. I think she realised how I felt; she once teased me about it. Sheila Beer D.K. Broster The Flight of the Heron Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By... James Murray Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1900-1945 '[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 Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By... James Murray Charles Dickens [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By... James Murray Robert Michael Ballantyne [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By... James Murray William Henry Giles Kingston [novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the fears of the London streets. There were big boys at... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Print : Book1900-1945 'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the fears of the London streets. There were big boys at... Victor Sawdon Pritchett William Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1900-1945 'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeum that no one was reading Dickens anymore: he trudge... Neville Cardus Charles Dickens [novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeum that no one was reading Dickens anymore: he trudge... Neville Cardus The Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '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 : Book1900-1945 '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 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Hans Christian Anderson The Snow Queen Print : Book1900-1945 '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 The Wreck of the Grosvenor Print : Book1900-1945 '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 William Harrison Ainsworth Old St Paul's Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Charles Dickens Bleak House Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Frederick Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1900-1945 '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 George Eliot The Mill on the Floss Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 '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 Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Print : Book1900-1945 'In the depressed steelworks town of Merthyr Tydfil between the world wars, schoolboys were baffled by A Christmas Carol: "for one thing, we never could understand why it... Welsh schoolboys Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Print : Book1900-1945 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshelves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed ... Janet Hitchman Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c... Janet Hitchman Joseph Addison The Spectator Print : Book1900-1945 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c... Janet Hitchman Punch Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c... Janet Hitchman W.G. Collingwood The Life of Ruskin Print : Book1900-1945 'In the 1920s Janet Htitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed ... Janet Hitchman O.F. Walton Christie's Old Organ Print : Book1900-1945 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c... Janet Hitchman O.F. Walton A Peep Behind the Scenes Print : Book1900-1945 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c... Janet Hitchman Hans Christian Anderson The Little Match Girl Print : Book1900-1945 'From a classroom library of perhaps two dozen volumes [Richard Hillyer] borrowed one by Tennyson, simply because it had 'Poet Laureate' printed on the title page: the co... Richard Hillyer Alfred Lord Tennyson Print : Book1900-1945 'At a second-hand stall, [Richard Hillyer] bought a four volume Half Hours with Best Authors. One could dismiss it as a potted Anglocentric collection of snippets by dead... Richard Hillyer Half Hours With Best Authors Print : Book1900-1945 After breakfast the three maids were called in for prayers. Our uncle who was working his way chronologically through the Bible had got once more to Kings and intoned a c... Mr Bugg The Bible Print : Book1900-1945 I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Home Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat... Victor Sawdon Pritchett G.E. Farrow The Wallypug of Why Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Children's Encyclopaedia Print : Book1900-1945 I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Hereward the Wake Print : Book1900-1945 I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat... Victor Sawdon Pritchett [comics -unknown] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marriage on Two Hundred a Year Print : Book1900-1945 Our first lessons were from Ford Madox Ford's 'English Review' which was publishing some of the best young writers of the time. We discussed Bridges and Masefield... For ... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Ford Madox Ford English Review Print : Book, Serial / periodical1900-1945 Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I do not know: we went on to Tennyson, never learning... Victor Sawdon Pritchett James Russell Lowell The Vision of Sir Launfal Print : Book1900-1945 Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I do not know: we went on to Tennyson, never learning... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Alfred Tennyson Print : Book1900-1945 'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's... Kathleen Woodward Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England Print : Book1900-1945 'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's... Kathleen Woodward Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E... Print : Book1900-1945 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Everyman magazine with "opening up an entirely new set... James Murray Samuel Johnson Rasselas Print : Book1900-1945 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Everyman magazine with "opening up an entirely new set... James Murray Everyman Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Everyman magazine with "opening up an entirely new set... James Murray Edward Bellamy Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Print : Book1900-1945 'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater' Philip Ballard Walter Pater Print : Book, Unknown1900-1945 'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater' Philip Ballard George Meredith Print : Book, Unknown1900-1945 'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater' Philip Ballard George Bernard Shaw Print : Serial / periodical, Unknown1900-1945 'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater' Philip Ballard Richard Le Gallienne Print : Serial / periodical, Unknown1900-1945 'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tales from Shakespeare".' Spike Mays Jonathan Swift "Gulliver's Travels" Print : Book1900-1945 'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tales from Shakespeare".' Spike Mays Daniel Defoe "Robinson Crusoe" Print : Book1900-1945 'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tales from Shakespeare".' Spike Mays Charles Lamb Tales from Shakespeare Print : Book1900-1945 '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa... Ethel Clark Walter Scott Print : Book1900-1945 '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa... Ethel Clark William Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1900-1945 '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa... Ethel Clark Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print : Book1900-1945 '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa... Ethel Clark Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa... Ethel Clark Matthew Arnold Print : Book1900-1945 '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa... Ethel Clark William Shakespeare Print : Book1900-1945 '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa... Ethel Clark Harriet Beecher Stowe Print : Book1900-1945 '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa... Ethel Clark Rudyard Kipling Print : Book1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent Beatrice and Sidney Webb Print : Book1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent William Blake Print : Book1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent John Stuart Mill Print : Book1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Print : Book1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Print : Book1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent [Freudian psychology] Print : Book1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent [industrial administration] Print : Book1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent [unknown] [political history] Print : Book1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent Bertrand Russell Essays in Scepticism Print : Book1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler The Decline of the West Print : Book1900-1945 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t... Elizabeth Blackburn Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Print : Book1900-1945 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t... Elizabeth Blackburn Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind Print : Book1900-1945 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t... Elizabeth Blackburn John Milton Lycidas Print : Book1900-1945 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t... Elizabeth Blackburn Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Print : Book1900-1945 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t... Elizabeth Blackburn [unknown] [Ancient Greek literature] Print : Book1900-1945 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t... Elizabeth Blackburn George Bernard Shaw [plays] Print : Book1900-1945 'Jack Common recalled that his mother brought him a secondhand and severely abridged "Life of Johnson" for 1d., and he had to read it several times before he even partial... Jack Common James Boswell Life of Johnson Print : Book1900-1945 'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he... Lennox Kerr William Shakespeare [works] Print : Book1900-1945 'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he... Lennox Kerr n/a Bible Print : Book1900-1945 'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he... Lennox Kerr William Cobbett A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of L... Print : Book1900-1945 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown, poetry] Print : Book1900-1945 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... John Keats [unknown, poetry] Print : Book1900-1945 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... David Herbert Lawrence [unknown, poetry] Print : Book1900-1945 [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 Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Print : Book1900-1945 [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 Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop Print : Book