| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into suc... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the ... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before deat... | William Makepeace Thackeray | Edward Bulwer Lytton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Edward Bulwer Lytton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | Edward Bulwer Lytton | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'. | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Night and Morning | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' | Margaret Oliphant | ?Edward ?Bulwer Lytton | St Stephen's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world... | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton | The Coming Race | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Edward George, Earl Bulwer Lytton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called "Zanoni", an occult love story written by an English nobl... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'. | George Eliot | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at home all the evening really fascinated with Bulwer's "My Novel", got in fact so excited with the story tha... | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | My Novel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home read a little of my Novel smoked a Cigar and went quietly to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | My Novel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at home reading "Night & Morning".' | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Night and Morning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'i have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so st... | Mary Howitt | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulw... | Mary Shelley | Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton | Paul Clifford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846:
'I forgot quite to quarrel with you a little about Sir E... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Edward Bulwer Lytton | 'Confessions and Observations of a Water-Patient' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening Polly was so deeply interested in a ghost story written by Lord Lytton & said to be the foundation of ... | Polly Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | [ghost story] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my el... | Zoe Procter | Edward Bulwer Lytton | [poetry] | Print: Book |