√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Hans Christian Andersen | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H53, January 1857
"But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he ... | John Ruskin | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy legends and Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,... | Florence Barclay | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | Hans Andersen | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Whenever she felt morose or lonely she looked into books, and, having an insatiable curiosity, by the time she was th... | Edith Sitwell | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 19 March 1845:
'Mind you read Andersen's "Improvisatore." I have just f... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hans Christian Andersen | The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845:
'That book you like so, the Danish novel, mu... | Robert Browning | Hans Christian Andersen | The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Hans Christian Andersen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would ... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Hans Christian Andersen | Little Match Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman R... | girls at the Passmore Edwards Settlement | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairytales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicat... | John Ruskin | Hans Christen Andersen | [tales] | Print: Book |