| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Di... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Di... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Windsor Castle | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | The Tower of London | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three ... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | group of London thieves | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either as penny numbers or in volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been twice in prison. I was only in Liverpool two days. I came from Manch... | H.T. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, read as numbers or volume? |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been five times in prison. I have been as the Sanspareil and at all the t... | T.A | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I came from Manchester to the races. I was taken into custody when I had only be... | G.G. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been three times in prison and once discharged. I have been at the Sanspa... | J.M. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I was never in prison before. I have been twice discharged, and am now waiting f... | | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been nine times in prison and once discharged, and am now waiting trial..... | T.E. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been six times in prison and four times discharged, and am now waiting tria... | M.F. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been twice in prison and am now waiting trial... I have seen 'Jack Sheppard... | A.L. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been six times in prison, and four times discharged... Never saw 'Jack Shep... | J.F. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been four times in prison and twice discharged... I never saw Jack Sheppard... | | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I never was in prison before. I have been at the Sanspareil, and at all the other ... | E.B. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I never was in prison before. I was taken into custody for attempting to rob my ma... | J.H. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I thought this 'Jack Sheppard' was a clever fellow for making his escape and robbi... | J.L. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportuni... | J.H. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | William Harrison Ainsworth | Old St Paul's | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excit... | H.M. Tomlinson | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | 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 | Harrison Ainsworth | Old Saint Paul's | 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 | Harrison Ainsworth | Tower of London, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi... | James Glass Bertram | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On... | William Somerset Maugham | William Harrison Ainsworth | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 |
'Laura, who by this time was reading "Old St Paul's" at home, simply romped through this Little-Go' | Laura Thompson | William Harrison Ainsworth | Old St Paul's | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Pr... | Charles Dickens | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | William Harrison Ainsworth | Windsor Castle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | .'.. poor old Jack Sheppard. I doubt not Ainsworth meant to be moral.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 January 1840:
'I have been reading "Jack Sheppard," and have been str... | Mary Russell Mitford | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 17 October 1826:
'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as ... | Walter Scott | Harrison Ainsworth | Sir John Chiverton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small ... | Hilary Spalding | Harrison Ainsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | William Harrison Ainsworth | Boscobel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 20 October and 1 November 1879] 'Lady Charlotte had now for the moment deserted Shakespea... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Harrison Ainsworth | South Sea Bubble | Print: Book |