| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays ... | Mark Tellar | Mary Braddon | [stories] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]." | William Ewart Gladstone | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Doctor's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w... | Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Outcasts or Henry Dunbar | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Polly Stamper | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Joseph Stamper | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Polly Stamper | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Mary Braddon | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly' | John Buckley Castieau | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Married Beneath Him | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Strangely, instead of Plato, took up "Lady Audley's Secret" this morning.' | John Ruskin | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |