Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Bancroft

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

	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale	Bancroft	The American Revolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Bancroft's History of the United States, even in a centenary edition, is essentially heavy fare ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Bancroft	History of the United States of America from the Discovery of the American Continent	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [e...	Mary Augusta Ward	George Bancroft	History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.	Print: Book