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Johann Wyss
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Johann David Wyss : Swiss Family Robinson
'[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay Print: Book
Johann David Wyss : The Swiss Family Robinson
On 8 September 1854 Christiana Thompson noted in her diary that her children Elizabeth and Alice (later Alice Meynell) were 'reading every day with their Pa Swiss Family Robinson.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thompson Family Print: Book
Johann David Wyss : The Family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island
'Sunday August 20th. [...] Read Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Johann Wyss : The Swiss Family Robinson
'I read the whole of Swiss Family Robinson, and was not deterred by the bloodstain which had obliterated half the print on a page in the middle of the book, at the point where Ernest fitted retractable blinkers to the ostrich, so that he could guid to to right or left while seated on its back, riding the whirlwind. I read the book four times before venturing further.'