√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Benjamin Disraeli | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Benjamin Disraeli | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'I have finished Endymion with a painful feeling that the writer [Disraeli] considers all political life as mere play... | A. C. Tait | Benjamin Disraeli | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | Fanny Kemble | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after ... | Fanny Kemble | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newco... | Albert Battiscombe | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby; or, The new generation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 29th July
?Sybil? ? (Disraeli)
[...]
I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft f... | Gerald Moore | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 16th August
?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse).
I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book f... | Gerald Moore | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 September 1844:
'I have just read Coningsby. It is very able, & yet s... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby: or, The New Generation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845:
'You ask me questions, "if I like novels," [... | Robert Browning | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 1 May 1845:
'Once I sate up all night to read Vivian Grey'. | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. H... | Alfred Tennyson | Benjamin Disraeli | Henrietta Temple | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. H... | Alfred Tennyson | Benjamin Disraeli | Lothair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars ... | John Buckley Castieau | Benjamin Disraeli | Lothair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham, 22 February 1853:
'I fear that the Government of the country is likely to beco... | John Wilson Croker | Benjamin Disraeli | 'Buckinghamshire speeches' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]:
'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croke... | Lord Lyndhurst | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly un... | Oscar Wilde | Benjamin Disraeli | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 11 June 1827:
'The attendance on the committee and afterwards the Gnl meeting of the Oil Gas Company took u... | Walter Scott | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 27 May 1878:
'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of soun... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil, or The Two Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 27 May 1878:
'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of soun... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil, or The Two Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 June 1878:
'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | ?Benjamin ?Disraeli | Alroy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 November 1879:
'We left Bruges by an early train, the express, joining the steamer at Ostend, and had a beautiful... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Benjamin Disraeli | pamphlet [featuring descriptions of Syria and Cyprus] | |