Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

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

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
  RED International Logo

RED Australia logo


RED Canada logo
RED Netherlands logo
RED New Zealand logo

Listings for Author:  

Anson

 

Click here to select all entries:

 


  

George Anson : A Voyage Round the World

'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same kind of epiphanies as other classic literature. Anson's A Voyage Round the World performed that magic for Alexander Somerville and for the Scottish turnip hoers he read it to'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Somerville      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

  

George Anson : A Voyage Round the World

'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Park'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: "Jacques", a flax dresser      Print: Book

  

George Anson : Voyage Round the World

Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

  

Anson : Voyage Round the World

"Alexander Somerville, a young farm-worker growing up in the Lammermuir Hills, made his first great journeys without leaving the fields in which he laboured: "'The next book which came in my way, and made an impression so strong as to be still unworn and unwearable, was Anson's Voyage Round the World ... I had read nothing of the kind before ...'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Somerville      Print: Book

  

Anson : Voyages

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking turns with my sisters) I used to jump up into her lap and listen whilst she read to us [italics]Anson's Voyages[end italics], or [italics]Lemprier's Tour to Morocco[end italics], or the [italics]History of Montezuma[end italics]. When she had finished, we all, kneeling round her, said our prayers and went to bed happy.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Sewell      Print: Book

  

Francoise Clarisse Manson : M?moires de Madame Manson, explicatifs de sa conduite dans le proc?s de l'assassinat de M. Fuald

'Clare reads the memoir of Madme Ma[n]son aloud to us'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

 

Click here to select all entries:

 

   
   
Green Turtle Web Design