| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual' | Caroline Clive | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as... | Margaret Oliphant | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 12 January 1853, regarding timings of publications of her and Gaskell's new wor... | Charlotte Bronte | Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Patrick Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, June 1853, regarding Gaskell's planned visit to Haworth: 'From what I have heard ... | Patrick Bronte | Elizabeth Gaskell | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Elizabeth Gaskell | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Mary Crawford Fraser recalled how a contemporary at the boarding-school run by her aunt, with a background in trade, ... | Rosie | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes pencilled marginalia by Harriet Martineau in her copy of Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Bron... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we spent the evening pleasantly, in spite of ailing bodies, reading Mrs Gaskell's pretty "Cranford".' | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading, in the evening, "Poor Peter".' | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford - 'Poor Peter' section | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.' | George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think my introduction to the authoress of that fine book Mary Barton must be postponed.' | Alfred Tennyson | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Gaskell | [possibly the story, 'Stopped Payment, at Cranford' in Household Words, April 1853] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b... | Hannah Mitchell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''A grand old book, "The Pilgrim's Progress"! But I've something here you'll like better. "Cranford". Ever heard of it... | Flora Thompson | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]':
'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by
Elizabeth Missing Sewell ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run
by Elizabeth Missing ... | 'Rosie' | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read suc... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Gaskell | Wives and Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''Libbie Marsh' I send too; one of my cousins liked it so much that I gave it to her, and she published it on her own ... | Fanny | Elizabeth Gaskell | Libbie Marsh's Three Eras | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am so glad you liked 'Ruth'. I was so anxious about her, and took so much pains over writing it, that I lost my own... | R. Monckton Milnes | Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'you are not coming up to a certain Mr Hibbert who is now reading Mary Barton for the [italics] fourteenth [end italic... | Mr Hibbert | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I'm glad she [Charlotte Bronte] likes 'North and South'. I did not think Margaret was so over good. What would Miss B... | Charlotte Bronte | Elizabeth Gaskell | North and South | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[A. Stanley] told me something I liked to hear, & so I shall tell it to you. In Moscow he had seen a good deal of a p... | | Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh... | Margaret Ruskin | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The children who like Bessy's Troubles are great geese, & no judges at all, which children generally are, for it is c... | 'children', presumably known to Marianne Gaskell | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Bessy's Troubles at Home | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850:
'For Mary Barton, I am a little, little disap... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The se... | Edward Morgan Forster | Elizabeth Gaskell | Sylvia's Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So I turned, as often, for help and advice to Mrs.Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte", which Winifred and I had read... | Vera Brittain | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Charles Stansfield | Elizabeth Gaskell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Celia Burrow | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cousin Phillis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Katherine Evans | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Helen Rawlings, Janet Rawlings, Muriel B. Smith & Howard R. Smith | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Alfred Rawlings | Elizabeth Gaskell | North and South | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Howard R. Smith | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [From letter to Clement Shorter from the niece of John Nunn:]
'In 1857 I was staying with Mr Nunn at Thorndon, in S... | anon | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]
'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of G... | George Eliot | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My reader is a great success. It is ''Cranford'', and ''D-n Dr Johnson'' comes in. She stopped dead and said ''a slan... | Emma Darwin | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |