√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth, on visit to Catherine Clarkson at Bury St Edmunds, to William Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, 14 A... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary r... | Wordsworth Family | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'A rainy morning ... I read a little of Chaucer, prep... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 2 December 1801: 'I read the Tale of Phoebus and the Crow ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Maunciple's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer a... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'I read Palamon and Arcite.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Knight's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy ta... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | Prologues from the Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy ta... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Man of Law's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 24 December 1801: 'We sate comfortably round the fire in the Evening, ... | Wordsworth Family | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 26 December 1801: 'After tea we sate by the fire comfortably. I read ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Miller's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 30 October 1802: '... [William Wordsworth and Stoddart] surprized us by their a... | ?John Stoddart | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Mary read the Prologue to Chaucer's tales to me in the morning.' | Mary Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | Prologue to The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Before tea I sate 2 hours in the parlour. Read part of The K... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Knight's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | H. M. Swanwick | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Geoffrey Chaucer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Parliament of Fowls | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq... | George Darwin | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I did "The Knightes Tale" all my prep. time and like it'. | Hilary Spalding | Geoffrey Chaucer | Knight's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful." | Hilary Spalding | Geoffrey Chaucer | Knight's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer's Prologue. I had been depressed and ill ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Geoffrey Chaucer | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Extracted by G. C. Moore Smith from J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, "Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet"(1879): 'There was ... | Gabriel Harvey | Geoffrey Chaucer | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the first book of Troilus & Cressida aloud in the evening.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Geoffrey Chaucer | Troilus and Criseyde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939:
'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all ... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The... | Joseph Conrad | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.' | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Knight's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 6 July 1853:
'Read three first characters of Chaucer's Prologue.' | Lady Charlotte Guest | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales (Prologue) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but not... | Robert Southey | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fi... | Charles Stansfield | Geoffrey Chaucer | Rhyme of Sir Thopas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fi... | Elizabeth Edminson | Geoffrey Chaucer | Prioress' Tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Violet Wallis | Geoffrey Chaucer | Knight's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Helen Rawlings | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Alfred Rawlings | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Ernest E. Unwin | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Mary Robson | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Rosamund Wallis | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Charles Evans | Geoffrey Chaucer | [poetry, including the General Prologue] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales (General Prologue) | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Prioress's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Wife of Bath's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales | |