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

	1850-1899	'Among the writers who deserve attention the first is Rudyard Kipling (his last book,�The Day�s Work�, a novel[sic]). J.M. Barrie�a Scotsman. His last book �Sentimenta...	Joseph Conrad	Rudyard Kipling	The Day's Work	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Among the writers who deserve attention the first is Rudyard Kipling (his last book ,�The Day�s Work�, a novel). J.M. Barrie�a Scotsman. His last book �Sentimental T...	Joseph Conrad	J M Barrie	Sentimental Tommy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Among the writers who deserve attention the first is Rudyard Kipling (his last book ,�The Day�s Work�, a novel). J.M. Barrie�a Scotsman. His last book �Sentimental To...	Joseph Conrad	George Moore	Evelyn Innes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A good many English here. We stare and are silent, following the manners of our own race. Don Quixote and walking are my only friends.'	John Masefield	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the afternoon, at a tennis party at Blair Castle, a bicycle orderly arrives with an urgent telegram for my battalion. Being the senior Cameronian officer present ...	James Lochhead Jack	[n/a] [n/a]	[telegram]	Manuscript: telegram
	1850-1899	"At the Paris Exhibition of 1878 I saw, and never forgot, a picture of the death of Manon Lescaut, and asked my Father many questions. I read that amazing 'one book' o...	Rudyard Kipling	Antoine Francois Prevost	L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Le...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	At the Paris Exhibition of 1878 I saw, and never forgot, a picture of the death of Manon Lescaut, and asked my Father many questions. I read that amazing 'one book' of...	Rudyard Kipling	Paul Scarron	Le Roman Comique	Print: Book
	1900-1945	And, if it be in your power, bear serenely with imitators. My "Jungle Books" begat zoos of them. but the genius of all the genii was one who wrote a series called "Ta...	Rudyard Kipling	Edgar Rice Burroughs	Tarzan of the Apes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"There were not many books in that house, but Father and Mother as soon as they heard I could read sent me priceless volumes. One I have still, a bound copy of 'Aunt J...	Rudyard Kipling	Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing	Six to Sixteen	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I've read the "Seven Seas" and Jessie has used the scent (after heroic struggles with Kipling's diction and the glass stopper)and we are full of gratitude. Both things...	Joseph Conrad	Rudyard Kipling	The Seven Seas	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The last words unveiling the mystery of the Erebus and Terror expedition were brought home and disclosed to the world by Sir Leopold M�Clintock in his book "The Voyage...	Joseph Conrad	Leopold M'Clintock	The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narr...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I will send you soon a note on Miss Kingsley's book on Africa. C'est un voyageur et un �crivain tr�s remarquable. Her opinions of questions dealing with the colonies a...	Joseph Conrad	Mary Kingsley	West African Studies	Print: Book
	1850-1899	This growing interest in Indian India was further whetted by Ruddy's reading of a new novel "Lalun the Bergun, or the Battle of Panipat: A legend of Hindoostan", publishe...	Rudyard Kipling	Mirza Moorad �Gaekwaree� Alee Beg	Lalun the Beragun or the Battle of Panipat: A lege...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mary Gaywood giving evidence at the trial for theft of her servant Eleanor Clark at the Old Bailey, 21 October 1761: "Last Tuesday right she went away, and not coming ...	Eleanor Clark	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The book of my boyhood was, however, the "Pilgrim's Progress", a beautiful edition of which was given me by a paternal uncle. I used to read it from morning to night, ...	John Leatherland	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was also much struck with many parts of the Bible. My favourite chapters were the xv. of the 1 Ep. of Corinthians; the xi of Hebrews; Ezekiel's vision; and most of t...	John Leatherland	[n/a] [n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was passionately fond of poetry, being led to its study by accidentally meeting with Milton's minor poems, when about fourteen years of age. Though so young, I was i...	John Leatherland	John Milton	Comus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Speaking of the Quarterly Review, a "stray number" of which was a prize I once found on the counter of a grocer, and which I rescued from the ignominious fate of being...	John Leatherland	[n/a] [n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	�What further stimulated Ruddy�s interest in the British soldier was a book he reviewed for his paper: Nathaniel Bancroft�s �From Recruit to Staff Sergeant� the autobiog...	Rudyard Kipling	Nathaniel Bancroft	From Recruit to Staff Sergeant	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I could begin to read one of the books that had been given to me ... and lose myself in another world. [Followed by a list of the books enjoyed].'	Eileen Lawrence	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women

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