| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | '"drudge like Selden days & nights
And in the Endless labour die"'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | Richard Bentley | A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Ode II Book III of Horace. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have held off reading Walpole's Correspondences till now. I am in the former series to Mann. At first, I was agreea... | Harriet Martineau | Horace Walpole (ed. Richard Bentley) | Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I shall certainly have the pleasure of seeing you tomorrow, and will turn over the prospectus in my mind, meanwhile.? | Charles Dickens | Richard Bentley | Prospectus for Bentley?s Miscellany | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 January 1831:
'You will lend me Phalaris (will you not?) at some future t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Bentley | A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris | 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 | Bentley | Sermons on the Folly of Atheism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Bentley | [edition of Horace with commentary] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley'... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Bentley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I go to the library; luckily there is no queue. I get "Trent's Last Case" - a grand book. I've read it at least three... | Thomas Kitching | E. C. Bentley | Trent's Last Case | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Phyliis's novel, "Inheritance", had become the fiction-star of that spring.' | Vera Brittain | Phyllis Bentley | Inheritance | Print: Book |