| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner. | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone. | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggars Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mrs Newton, Lady Palmerston, Lady Clavering and 2 daughters (great fortunes), and 3 Mrs Fox's here. While the last 2 w... | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?This evening my father has been reading out Gay?s Trivia to our great entertainment. I wished very much, my dear aunt... | R.L. Edgeworth | John Gay | Trivia: or the art of walking the streets of London | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked af... | John Cole | John Gay | Choir, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I completed the reading of Gay's "Fables", which I think contains a very good lesson of morality; and I think the lan... | Thomas Turner | John Gay | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always hated Gay's Fables, and for long could not abide a red book.' | Harriet Martineau | John Gay | Gay's Fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Gay | Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Gay | [burlesque 'pastorals'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Gay | The Village Curate | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over the "Beggar's Opera". The slang of low iniquity, is happily given in this strange drama...' | Thomas Green | John Gay | Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The late "worthy'' Duke of Queensberry, as Thomson, in his "Seasons," justly characterises him, told me that when Gay... | Charles Douglas, Third Duke of Queensberry | John Gay | Beggar's Opera, The | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.' | James Boswell | John Gay | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Friendship like love is but a name, Unless to one you stint th... | Catherine Austen | John Gay | The Hare and Many Friends | Unknown |