√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet:
"I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I... | anon | Oliver Goldsmith | Edwin and Angelina | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the... | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Grecian History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Oliver Goldsmith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of England from the Earliest Times... | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of... | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lip... | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Oliver Goldsmith | The Deserted Village | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It must be labour that makes things valuable Princes & Lords may flourish and may fade But a bold Peasantry, the Coun... | Robert Sharp | Oliver Goldsmith | The Deserted Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | Oliver Goldsmith | History of Rome | 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 | Oliver Goldsmith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.' | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'His plan was to make use of me as a talking dictionary and grammar, confining my teachings exclusively to the answeri... | | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ... | John Marsh | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England from the earliest times to the death of George II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Oliver Goldsmith | unknown | 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 | Oliver Goldsmith | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'search Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving, I think, to be more talked of' | William Windham | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Oliver Goldsmith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, we... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where
?Winter lingering chills the lap ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | [The traveller] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The traveller | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to
see Shelley at ele... | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol... | Claire Clairmont | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of Greece, from the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 15th. [...] Go in a Calesse to Casa Ricci at Livorno. Read Vicar of Wakefield'.
... | Claire Clairmont | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vicar of Wakefield' | Mary Shelley | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dos... | Richard Shackleton | Oliver Goldsmith | Deserted Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - "Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]".... | Anne Romilly | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The; or, A Prospect of Society | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said of Goldsmith's "Traveller," which had been published in my absence, "There has not been so fine a poem since ... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Goldsmith's 'Life of Parnell' is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor mat... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Life of Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | [apology for beating a bookseller] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Deserted Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Roman History From The Foundation of The City of Rom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father, i... | Mr Maclaurin | Oliver Goldsmith | History of the Earth and Animated Nature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Joshua Reynolds | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Bennet Langton | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Charles Fox | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| | '[Johnson said] "I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield", which he was afterwards fool enough to expu... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Oliver Goldsmith | History of the Earth and Animated Nature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Played Bezique with Polly in the evening after I had read aloud three Acts of "She stoops to conquer".' | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening took Polly out for a little walk after I had finished reading [aloud?] "She stoops to conquer".' | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to-night to read again "The Vicar of Wakefield" & was delighted with its quaint easy style, read two or three c... | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish reading "The Vicar of Wakefield". The world has changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 150' | Thomas Kitching | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.' | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.' | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | members of XII Book Club | Oliver Goldsmith | Good-natured Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | Ernest E. Unwin | Oliver Goldsmith | Good-natured Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | Ernest E. Unwin | Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:]
'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar... | Elizabeth Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 6 January 1820:]
'Read Goldsmith's History of Rome.' | Elizabeth Firth | Oliver Goldsmith | History of Rome | Print: Book |