√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William b... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Fletcher | unknown | 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 | John Fletcher | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a pl... | Samuel Pepys | John Fletcher | A wife for a month | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methin... | Samuel Pepys | John Fletcher | The Custome of the Country | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play' | Samuel Pepys | John Fletcher | The mad lover | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Cupid's Revenge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the first act of the faithful Shepherdess aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Fletcher | Faithfull Shepheardesse, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shephe... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Fletcher | Faithfull Shepheardesse, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Fletcher | Wife for a Month, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'.
... | Claire Clairmont | John Fletcher and Philip Massinger | The Elder Brother | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of
Beaumont & Fletcher.'
... | Claire Clairmont | John Fletcher | The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Chances' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Chances, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Night Walker or, the Little Thief | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Love's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 February 1837:
'I have been reading & rejoicing in your Faithful Shep... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Fletcher | The Faithful Shepherdess | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the T... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Fletcher | Double Marriage, The | Print: Book |