√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'... one day I picked up a cop... | Neville Cardus | Samuel Butler | Note Books | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I came home and read Hudibras and William Byrd ...' | William Richard Grahame | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | Samuel Butler | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of "Hudibras", w... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to comp... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Samuel Butler | The Way of all Flesh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am extremely busy & my novel isn?t getting a fair chance. I solace myself with the "note books" of Samuel Butler.' | Arnold Bennett | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Jonathan Swift | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905:
'Elizabeth [employer] has lent me Erewhon which I am enjoying.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Butler | Erewhon; or, Over the Range | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Samuel Butler | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "Hudibras" affords a strong proof how much hold political principles had then upon the minds of men. T... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |