| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Dr Card | Discourse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as fa... | Frederick Rogers | Alexandre Dumas | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lect... | Anne Lister | Dr Scudamore | Lectures on physiology | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Alexandre Dumas | Valois cycle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Alexandre Dumas | D'Artagnan cycle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexandre Dumas | [novel] | 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 | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well... | George Scott | John Rodrigo Dos Passos | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she re... | Eleanor Farjeon | Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "re... | Robert Boyle | Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo | Amadis de Gaule | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" ... | Elizabeth Carter | Dr Shuckford | Dr Shuckford's Connection | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for ... | Bonar Thompson | Andre Gide | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.]
'By the middle of March 1831, I ... | Charles Manby Smith | Dr D | [manuscript of his book] | Manuscript: manuscript of book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 13 January 1875: "I have been staying at Mrs. Owen Wister's and having Fanny Kemb... | Fanny Kemble | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "The Count of Monte Cristo" (abridged) which is simply superb. Bought "Song of Bernadette" at last.' | Hilary Spalding | Alexandre Dumas | Count of Monte Cristo, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long y... | Henry James | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | The Morgesons | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long y... | Henry James | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | Two Men | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Count of Monte Cristo | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dr Sandford's lecture on Good Friday.' | John Cole | Dr Sanford | lecture on Good Friday | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Dr Robert William Dale | The Doctrine of Atonement | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Karl Friedrich Bahrdt | Glaubens-Bekanntniss | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Ludwig Von Hardenberg | Novalis Schriften (Vol I of 2) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading a book by Alexr Dumas fils called "Antonine", a stupid book in my opinion.' | Albert Battiscombe | Alexandre Dumas | Antonine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Alexandre Dumas | Three Mousequetaires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Alexandre Dumas | Marquis de Letoriere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | Dr Memes [pseud?] | [Life of William Cowper] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich von Humboldt | Essai politique sur la royaume de nouvelle espagne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.' | Arnold Bennett | Alexandre Dumas | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read Bragelonne'. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexandre Dumas | Le Vicomte de Bragelonne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am particularly glad to have, from you, your new book, with its inscription. I thank you very much. For years I h... | Arnold Bennett | Andre Gide | Nouveaux Pr?textes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds... | Arnold Bennett | Andr Gide | Isabelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Jan. 2nd. 1820 Florence Read a little Spanish -- Los Cabellos de [...] Absalon de Calderon de la Barca.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Los Cabellos de Absalon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Los Cabellos de Absalon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Vida es Sueno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Even... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Vida es Sueno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the sec... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rig... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Feb. 16th. [...] Read a little of La Cisma de Ingalaterra.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra -- in which the Queen Catterine tells
Henry that [...] Jane... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la
Barca [quotes three ... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Virgen del Sagrario | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany 10th. [...] Read Sintram by Baron de la Motte Fouque.' | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte-Fouque | Sintram and his Companions: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday May [...] 27th. [...] After dinner read Die Cypressenkranze de la Baronne la Motte
Fouque.' | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte Fouque | Die Cypressenkranze | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon
women.'
[also records re... | Claire Clairmont | Alexandre Joseph Pierre de Segur | Les Femmes, leur condition et leur influence dans l'ordre social chez differents peuples anciens et modernes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La devocion de la Cruz | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | El Purgatorio de San Patricio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Los cabellos de Absalon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La cisma de Ingilterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | El principe constante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Cypriano | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | El magico prodigioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Los dos amantes del cielo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German E... | G.E. Lynch Cotton | Andre-Guillaume Contant-d'Orville | Les Anecdotes Germaniques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844:
'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alexandre Dumas | Fernande | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alexandre Dumas | Les Deux Diane | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alexandre Dumas | Memoires d'un Medecin: Joseph Balsamo | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet | Le Batard de Mauleon | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1847:
'At Pisa, Robert read to me while I was ill [fol... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alexandre Dumas | Le Speronare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.' | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading Gide's memoirs, very disappointing I think, so far; I have found hardly anything that pleased me except ... | Vita Sackville-West | Andre Gide | Memoirs | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | Pages de Journal, 1929-1932 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting kn... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | Andre Gide's Journal 1885-1939 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.' | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | La Porte Etroite | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1845:
'Did I say anything to you of "Fernande" -- Dumases --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alexandre Dumas | Fernande | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 1 October 1849:
'We have had much quiet enjoyment here [...] r... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alexandre Dumas | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850:
'I am finishing the "Memoires d'un medecin"'. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | Memoires d'un medecin: Joseph Balsamo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Friedrich Adam Julius von Bernhardi | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol... | Edward Morgan Forster | Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Alexandre Dumas | Nouveaux Entre'actes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Gide | Journal | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Early in 1852 my father and mother went on a visit to one of his old College friends, Mr Rashdall the clergyman of Ma... | Alfred Tennyson | Dr Wordsworth | Apocalypse | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 4, I drank tea with Johnson at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined. He entertained us with an account... | Mr Fitzherbert | Dr Kennedy | [a tragedy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, "A Hymne to our Creator" by Dr Dillingham.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Dr Dillingham | A Hymne to our Creator | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson:
'On Monday the 10th [October, 1892], Miss Marryat, daughter of the celebrated nove... | John Tyndall | Dr Dabbs | account of death of Alfred Tennyson | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The ladies did not retire till after eleven & then I laid myself down on the sofa & tried to sleep. The mosquitoes ho... | John Buckley Castieau | Alexandre Dumas | Memoirs of a physician | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I played a game of bagatelle with Dotty & a game of Bezique with Sissy & with that & "Monte Christo" m... | John Buckley Castieau | Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read 'The Pretty Lady'? It was while reading 'Isabelle' that the form of this novel suddenly presented itse... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | Isabelle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Your book on Dostoevsky (for which many thanks) has made a very considerable impression upon me. And yet you say almo... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | Dostoevsky | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with fa... | Robert Southey | Pedro de Azevedo Tojal | Carlos Reduzido, Inglaterra Illustrada | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias" | John Ruskin | Alexandre ` Dumas | La Dame aux Camélias | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'.
I see in the course of a year a larg... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | The Vatican Swindle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'.
I see in the course of a year a larg... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | The School of Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wish I could write short novels like your completely admirable 'L’Ecole des Femmes'. But I can’t. | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | L'Ecole des Femmes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said a... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | L'Immoraliste | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said a... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am proud to learn that there is [a phrase in "Lord Jim"] worthy to serve as an epigraph to one of the books of "Les... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | Les Caves du Vatican (Book 1) | Print: see additional information |
| 1900-1945 | 'I keep the two books a little longer. "Shakespeare" is good.' | Joseph Conrad | A.[Andrew] C.[Cecil] Bradley | Shakespearean Tragedy:Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Four one act plays were then read:
"Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Co... | Members of XII Book Club | Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany | Fame and the Poet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 3 September 1766:]
'Little puss is sitting by me on a huge folio of popish s... | Catherine Talbot | Pedro de Ribadeneira | ?Flos Sanctorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry? I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Henrich von der Hagen | Literarischer Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Poesie von der altesten Zeit, bis in das sechzhnte Jarhrundert | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks indeed for your good letter and for the little book ["La Symphonie Pastorale"] whose precious pages I wil... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | La Symphonie Pastorale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A few days ago in fact I re-read "Les Caves du Vatican", with the same intetest but with an admiration that grows on ... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | Les Caves du Vatican | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you, my dearest for all the books you have presented me with, in particular for Fredro, qui m'a donné un plai... | Joseph Conrad | Alexandr Fredro | Trzy po Trzy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Forgive me for not thanking you sooner for the book ["Incidences"]. It's my gouty wrist I can barely hold a pen. But ... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | Incidences | Print: Book |