| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Paul Louis Courier | Le Simple Discours | |
| 1800-1849 | 'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, wit... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Paul Louis Courier | Le Simple Discours | |
| 1700-1799 | Volume annotated in Dawson's own hand. Includes correction to Preface and a contents list. | John Dawson | Marquis of Chatele, Paul Hay | The Politics of France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Paul de Rapin-Thoyras | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter | Palingenesien von Jean Paul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter | Museum von Jean Paul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter | Jean Pauls Geist oder Chrestomathie der vorzuglich | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter | Das Kampaner Thal oder uber die Unsterblichkeit de | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of ... | William Wordsworth | Paul Hentzner | A Journey into England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Paul Hentzner | A Journey into England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between... | George Gordon Lord Byron | St. Paul | Epistles to Corinthians | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and ar... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Little Karoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Paul de Kruif | Men Against Death | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Paul Gallico | Snow Goose, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 23 February 1888: Henry James writes (in French) to Paul Bourget on having read and enjoyed Bourget's Mensonges. | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Mensonges | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In letter of 19 October 1890, Henry James writes (in French) to Urbain Mengin on having read Paul Bourget's new novel ... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Coeur de Femme | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 July 1892: "Have you read any of ... [Paul Bourget's] novels? If you haven't, ... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | La Terre promise | Manuscript: Sheet, proofs |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Paul Bourget, 15 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his collection of tales, Drames de Famille: 'I have... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Drames de Famille | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Paul Bourget 21 December 1905, thanking him for copy of "Les Deux Soeurs": 'This volume I read with imm... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Les Deux Soeurs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having enjoyed his "Etudes et Portr... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Etudes et portraits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having read his article on Ferdinan... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | article on Ferdinand Brunetiere | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse | "Vier Neue Novellen" | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Fl... | Charlotte Mew | Paul Verlaine | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the afternoon upon the Quarter-deck, the Doctor told Mr North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitlesse Pre... | | Paul Scarron | The Fruitless Precaution | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home, where I fell to read "The fruitlesse precaution" (a book formerly recommended by Dr Clerke at sea to me)... | Samuel Pepys | Paul Scarron | The Fruitlesse Precaution | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'but went home again by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night... | Samuel Pepys | Paul Scarron | The Fruitlesse Precaution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading for the second [time] "The System of Nature", by Holbach and Diderot, if every one would read it, they w... | Anna Doyle Wheeler | Baron Paul Henrich Dietrich d'Holbach | Le Systeme de la nature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Paul Rycaut is mistaken (as he commonly is) in calling the sect [italics] muterin [italics].' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'. | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'But the Armenians have no notion of transubstantiation, whatever accounts Sir Paul Rycaut gives of them (which accoun... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I can only tell you, that if you please to read Sir Paul Rycaut, you will there find a full and true account of the v... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Paul Henri Dietrich, Baron d' Holbach | Systeme de la nature ou des loix du monde physique et du monde moral | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there &... | Mary Godwin | Elizabeth jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de Montolieu | Caroline de Lichtfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quart... | Mary Godwin | Elizabeth Jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de Montolieu | Caroline de Lichtfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Paul Maraud | Rond Point des Champs Elys?es | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After dinner away home, Mr Brisband along with me as far as the Temple; and there looked upon a new book, set out by ... | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman Empire By Paul Rycault, Esq. secretary to his Excellency the Earl of Winchilsea, Embassadour Extraordinary for His Majesty Charles the Second etc. to Sultan Mahomet Han the Fourth, Emperour of the Turks | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish Policy, which is a good book, well writ; an... | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turky' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | ''and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults "History of the Turkes", which is a very good book.' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch w... | Thomas Carlyle | Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de Sade | Memoires pour la vie de Francois Petrarch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1844:
'Really, [Paul de Kock] is very bad -- he is very [italic... | Elizabeth Barrett | Paul de Kock | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the Ne... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Paul | Epistle to the Philippians, I.3 | Print: wristlet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Philippe-Paul, comte de Segur | Histoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee, pendant l'annee 1812 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Paul Verlaine | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 January 1845:
'Paul [de Kock] is the writer of farce, .. broad farce... | Elizabeth Barrett | Paul de Kock | Mon Ami Piffard; et Chipolata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | Leben Fibels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | Herbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitschriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | Die Flegeljahre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richt... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher... | Philip Larkin | Paul Verlaine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul Claudel | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Paul Bourget | Physiologie de l'Amour Moderne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont... | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul-Louis Courier | 'Petition pour les Villageois que l'on empeche de Danser' (1822) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Paul Valery opening 'L'Histoire est ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul Valery | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Paul Charles Joseph Bourget | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Paul Bourget | Études et portraits | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Paul Bourget | Essais de psychologie contemporaine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been a few times to the Town [Montpellier] Library- with an object. And the object is reading up all I can di... | Joseph Conrad | Paul Gruyer | Napoleon, roi de l'ile d'Elbe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are severa... | Wilfred Owen | Paul Verlaine | 'Mon Reve Familier' | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Paul Rycaut | History of the Turkish Empire from the Year 1623 to the Year 1677 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen... | Arnold Bennett | Paul Margueritte | Le Désastre | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanize... | Robert Southey | Paul Jérémie Bitaubè | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Little Karoo | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Beadle | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin". Very fresh mind - he at once joins the company of those who... | William Soutar | Paul Gauguin | The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'll show you where I got the hint for it [his story "The Warriors' Soul"] in Philippe de Ségur. There's a hint for ... | Joseph Conrad | Philippe-Paule Ségur (Comte de) | Un Aide de Camp de Napoléon (de 1800 à 1812 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I know the work of Paul Adam very little and all I have in the house is his "Lettres de Malaisie". | Joseph Conrad | Paul Adam | Lettres de Malaisie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Paul Gruyer | Napoléon, roi de l' île d'Elbe | Print: Book |