Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Anson

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

	1800-1849	'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same ...	Alexander Somerville	George Anson	A Voyage Round the World	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read...	"Jacques", a flax dresser	George Anson	A Voyage Round the World	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco"...		George Anson	Voyage Round the World	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"Alexander Somerville, a young farm-worker growing up in the Lammermuir Hills, made his first great journeys without l...	Alexander Somerville	Anson	Voyage Round the World	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can ...	Jane Sewell	Anson	Voyages	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Clare reads the memoir of Madme Ma[n]son aloud to us'	Claire Clairmont	Francoise Clarisse Manson	M?moires de Madame Manson, explicatifs de sa conduite dans le proc?s de l'assassinat de M. Fuald	Print: Book