| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | 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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ... | Constance Smedley | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self Reliance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged to you for the volume of Emerson Essays. I had heard of him before and I know that Carlyle rates hi... | Alfred Tennyson | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi... | Christopher Grieve | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Emerson's Essays? I suppose it is the first immortal Amern book. It has come to me like a visitation of... | Harriet Martineau | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 November 1837: 'Read Waldo Emerson's oration. Though fanciful, it has much truth and be... | Harriet Martineau | Ralph Waldo Emerson | oration | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 30 March 1842:
'I have been reading Emerson -- He does away wit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1841:
'Yes [...] to [having read] Emerson's letters [sic]. Or ra... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays: First Series | 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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Alfred Rawlings | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Miss Pollard | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Edward Little | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Charles Stansfield | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that int... | Emma Darwin | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unknown | Print: Book |