√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who "held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head", a... | Hester Thrale | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form |
| 1800-1849 | 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and S... | Thomas Frost | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, periodical bound into books |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Joseph Addison | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ... | Hugh Miller | Joseph Addison | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ... | Rose Macaulay | Joseph Addison | [probably The Spectator] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers bound as volume? |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Joseph Addison | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At Kirk as usual. Spent the rest of the day and evening reading Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion | Adam Mackie | Joseph Addison | Evidences of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1782 Hester Thrale read the Spectator to her daughters, who found hilariously improper the "Idea of a Lady saying ... | Hester Thrale | Joseph Addison | The spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 | Joseph Addison | [essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper finished "The Tragedy of Cato".' | Thomas Turner | Joseph Addison | Cato, A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Addison's "Evidences of the Christian Religion".' | Thomas Turner | Joseph Addison | The evidences of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me ... | Samuel Richardson | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, 'Notes of Early Life': 'My dear grandmother [...] made me read the Psalms and chapters to her every mornin... | Mary Berry | Addison and Steele (ed.) | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | Joseph Addison | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Joseph Addison | [Spare Time] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hours from seven to nine were spent in reading some useful and entertaining books such as Addison's works and par... | Prince George | Joseph Addison | [Political works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Joseph Addison | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Joseph Addison | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Joseph Addison | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Joseph Addison | The Free-holder, I-LV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two... | Thomas Carlyle | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Examined, with a view to those principles, Addison's Eleven Papers in the "Spectator"; beginning at No. 409, and with... | Thomas Green | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Addison | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My mind was early formed (or half formed) by the old exploded "Spectator", and Addison's assertion that he had seen "... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'It has of late been the fashion to compare the style of Addison and Johnson, and to depreciate, I think very unjustly... | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | [essays] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Addison | Evidences of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Joseph Addison | Evidence of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c... | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked with approbation of an intended edition of "The Spectator," with notes; two volumes of which had been prepa... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked with approbation of an intended edition of "The Spectator," with notes; two volumes of which had been prepa... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Joseph Addison | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Remarks on Several Parts of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The [Roger de Coverley essays] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Tag at the close of the last Act of Cato is written by Mr Pope, and is apparently the worst Tag in the whole Play... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Joseph Addison | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish' | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |