| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Despising his job in a Birmingham factory, V.W. Garratt surrounded his workbench with a barricade of boxes, set up a ... | V.W. Garratt | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a seaman in the mid-1870s, Ben Tillett had not yet been exposed to revolutionary literature, "But I discovered Tho... | Ben Tillett | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a young South Wales miner, Edmund Stonelake, who had never heard of the French Revolution, asked a bookseller for ... | Edmund Stonelake | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or... | James Keir Hardie | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeep... | Elizabeth Bryson | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeep... | Elizabeth Bryson | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero-worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeep... | Elizabeth Bryson | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Labour Party pioneer F.W. Jowett..., reading Heroes and Hero-Worship as a young millworker, was attracted by its visi... | F.W. Jowett | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Robert Blatchford] found Sartor Resartus intimidating: "after reading the famous meditaton on the sleeping city, I t... | Robert Blatchford | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Thomas Carlyle | The Life of John Sterling | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | Thomas Carlyle | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since th... | Edmund Gosse | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but ... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Carlyle | Shooting Niagara | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "4/2/1845 - I am also reading Carlyle's History of the French Revolution - full of genius, pathos, and pictures; with ... | Amelia Opie | Thomas Carlyle | History of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 6 December 1886: "I ought long ago to have thanked you for your very substantial ... | Henry James | Thomas Carlyle | The Early Letters of Carlyle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Thomas Carlyle | Cromwell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Thomas Carlyle | Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From Miss [Lucy] Harrison [...] [Charlotte Mew] had heard time and again a reading of Carlyle's "Everlasting No" from... | Lucy Harrison | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we read one of Carlyle's articles, at the T. Sedgwicks'.' | Harriet Matineau and Mary Appleton | Thomas Carlyle | [an article] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"Chartism" gave me more pleasure and less pain than I expected: but the more I think it over the worse it looks. Ther... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | Chartism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Past and Present", very bad, insolent, bitter, one-sided and full of weary repetitions. I found i... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose one ought to read [Carlyle's] "Fred": but the extracts do look such a hash of his old sayings that one has ... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great [extracts of] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Journal, 14 January [?1835]: 'Read Carlyle's article on Burn... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | Article on Burns | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ... | Edwin Muir | Thomas Carlyle | French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Life of Pascal | Manuscript: Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later I had determined to spend a Whit-Monday at the Alexandra Palace, and on my way thither bought an eighteen-penny... | Thomas Okey | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Second confinement in the Prison at Hull:
'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked pu... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Thomas Carlyle | [uknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Thomas Carlyle | [uknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloqu... | Jane Bailie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Criticism on Faust (working title) | Manuscript: Sheet, Draft of essay due to be published in the Review |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero-Worship | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Well Sir - I have to thank you for your last, which certainly is the most tasteful Epistle I ever, in my life, receiv... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 13 February 1822 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 1 May 1843:
'I have been reading Carlyle .. his "Past & Present" -- The... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You did not mean me to return your story? I hope not - I shall soon be able to say it by heart - how I envy you! I ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Cruthers and Johnson | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a t... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Proofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings' | Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a ta... | Jack Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Proofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings' | Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916:
'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Carlyle | 'reminiscences' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Thomas Carlyle | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [letter approving 'Mary Barton'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a letter from Carlyle, and when I am over-filled with thoughts arising from this book, I put it all aside, (or ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [encouraging letter about 'Mary Barton'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you read a little piece of Carlyles on the death of Charles Buller, that appeared about a month ago in the London... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [article in 'London Examiner' on Chas Buller] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I ge... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [article in the 'Atlantic Monthly'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | Thomas Carlyle | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinkin... | Antonia White | Thomas Carlyle | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-temp... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 20th January 1825 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My own, best, dearest Love
I do believe I should have gone out of my senses, if your letter had been a day longer of... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 29th July 1825 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Carlyle, I received your letter with the inclosed addressed to Mr Burns, which I had the pleasure of deliveri... | James Johnston | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 4 August | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891:
'"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasan... | Bewicke Blackburne | Thomas Carlyle | Cromwell | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891:
'"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasan... | Bewicke Blackburne | Thomas Carlyle | 'Frederick' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891:
'"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasan... | Bewicke Blackburne | Thomas Carlyle | Latter Days | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Thomas Carlyle | Cromwell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The best trumpet that I can suggest is to read Thomas Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. Sick as I am of reading anything in... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Carlyle | Essay on Burns | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My first vague realisation that poverty was the result of humanity's incompetence, and not an inviolable law of natur... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You are right about that adorable book; F. and I are in a world, not ours; but pardon me, as far as sending on goes, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Carlyle | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'During our cruise [on The Sunbeam, Lord Brassey's yacht] ... | Henry Hallam | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a qu... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Proofs | Print: Proofs |
| 1800-1849 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began... | John Tyndall | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Title page and preface of 'German Romance' | Print: Title page and prefaceManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I heard about the great Abbot Sampson, of the twelfth century, whom I was to meet again at the age of fourteen, when ... | Zoe Procter | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Carlyle | Life of Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Friedrich" to purpose and worked well.' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday hard at "Friedrich", then walk to Tilberthwaite ravine with Joan and Arthur' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday Mr Shields came and disturbed me, but I was glad to see him. Did some "Frederick" in spite' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday ... Worked at "Frederick".' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday hard work on "Frederick"' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Friedrich".' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read part of Abbot Samson in evening. The pilgrimage to Rome!' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday a very happy Sunday, drawing a snailshell and with sweet evening home service and music, and reading Carlyl... | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Frederick" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading death of Swiss (Carlyle "French Revolution") to girls (Clennie and Diddie).' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of "Frederick".' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no... | Pattie Stansfield | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no... | Charles Stansfield | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no... | Walter Rowntree | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feel... | Margaret Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | State of German Literature | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Carlyle, like all the rest of the world. He has been writing a sort of pamphlet on the state of E... | Emma Darwin | Thomas Carlyle | Chartism | |
| 1900-1945 | 'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to h... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |