| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's ... | V.W. Garratt | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | Homer | the Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | Homer | Iliad, the | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ... | John Masefield | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten... | William Darwin | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done... | Samuel Richardson | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Ody... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Homer | Odyssey | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Iliad, book II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, Thursday 23 May 1799: 'I began Homer's Iliad on Wednesday last, to my no small delight, a... | Mary Berry | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 14 March 1808: 'Began reading the "Odyssey" of Homer in Pope's translation. Delighted with it.' | Mary Berry | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Homer | Whole Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 26th. [...] Read 1 Book of Pope's Homer's Iliad.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday July 29th. [...] Read Book IV of Iliad.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad (Book IV) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 30th. [...] read [...] half the V Book of the Iliad.
[...]
'Monday [...] July 31st. [...] Finish th... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad (Book V) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 19th. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.'
| Claire Clairmont | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 8 March 1823:
'We are now doing Cicero in... | Thomas Moulton-Barrett and boys at Charterhouse | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Homer I adore as more than human and I never read Popes fine translation without feeling exalted above my self'. | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of
ore consequence or ha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together
with Shakespeare ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 March 1832:
'When I had Payne Knight here, I took the trouble of counting... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | Carmina Homerica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s... | Sir Ronald Storrs | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aene... | Alfred Tennyson | Homer | 'description of Hades' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'During the winter evenings of 1855 my father would translate the Odyssey aloud into Biblical prose for my mother, who... | Alfred Tennyson | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the summer of 1861 we travelled in Auvergne and the Pyrenees [...] At Mont Dore, while my father was reading some ... | Alfred Tennyson | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS dates of reading incl. "Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903." | George Otto Trevelyan | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91):
'March 17th. [1890] He [Tennyson] had all but recovered from his influenz... | Hallam Tennyson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew ear... | Alfred Tennyson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |