√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 February 1872: "You, like all the world here I suppose, have been reading Fors... | Henry James | John Forster | Life of Charles Dickens | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau, in letter of 20 March 1873: 'The Life of Dickens is far too exclusively occupied with his personal ... | Harriet Martineau | John Forster | The Life of Charles Dickens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr. Sir.
Poets tell us that love is blind ? I fear indifference is more so. It is many months since I sent you a sli... | Charles Dickens | John Forster | [works] | Print: BookManuscript: SheetUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Gold... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Forster | Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Gold... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Forster | Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I try and find out the places where Mr Forster said I strained after common-place materials for effect, till the whol... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Forster | [review, probably in 'The Examiner' of 'Mary Barton'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the... | Antonia White | John Forster | Life of Charles Dickens, The | Print: Book |