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

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John Ward

 

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Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'At age twelve, recalled ploughboy John Ward, "I devoured - not read, that's too tame an expression - Robinson Crusoe, and that book gave me all my spirit of adventure, which has made me strike new ideas before old ones became antiquated, and landed me in many troubles, travels, and difficulties".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ward      Print: Book

  

Edward Gibbon : presumably Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute (who directed him to Don Quixote) and [guidance from fellow pit workers].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards      Print: Book

  

Thomas Hardy : 

'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute (who directed him to Don Quixote) and [guidance from fellow pit workers].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards      Print: Book

  

Algernon Charles Swinburne : 

'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute (who directed him to Don Quixote) and [guidance from fellow pit workers].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards      Print: Book

  

George Meredith : 

'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute (who directed him to Don Quixote) and [guidance from fellow pit workers].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards      Print: Book

  

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute (who directed him to Don Quixote) and [guidance from fellow pit workers].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards      Print: Book

  

 : Clarion (literary pages)

'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute (who directed him to Don Quixote) and [guidance from fellow pit workers].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wil John Edwards      Print: Serial / periodical

 

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