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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm 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 StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: 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 StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: 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 StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: 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 StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: 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 StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899One 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 StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899One 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 StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: 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 StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: 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 StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: 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 ClubRobert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: 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 StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the Treasury this morning almost from cover to cover. I love the thing on “shepherd.” Also the Sketch and Comic Cuts inside it!'Philip Thomas Byard Clayton TreasuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Greville's A Treatie of Human Learning ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleTreatie of Human Learning, APrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... A Treatie of Warres ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleTreatie on Warres, APrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:] 'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present is a very pretty treatise, "sur la gaiete," which th...Catherine Talbot treatise 'sur la gaiete'Print: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle George BerkeleyTreatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowle...Print: Book
1700-1799'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he says that he gives a most dreadful idea of the state...Joseph Evans Patrick ColquhounTreatise of the police of the metrpolisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Though [William Gifford] had few means of improvement, he made the most of what he had. A treatise on algebra had been given him by a young woman, who had found it in a ...William Gifford treatise on algebraPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia]: some very brief marginal marks/notes eg p. 72/3 is bookmarked and has text '11. Calcium. - This metal is a component of part of all animals' marked by three...Jonathan PereiraTreatise on food and diet, APrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing Albert Henry BuckTreatise on Hygiene and Public Health Print: Book


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