| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley... | Benjamin Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and ... | Benjamin Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 20 August 1814: 'Lord Rosslyn read to us "Lara," Lord Byron's new tale. It strongly marks his ma... | James Alexander, second Earl of Rosslyn | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence. I showed him a sketch of ... | Mr Wishaw | George Gordon, Lord Byron | journal of travels in Switzerland (extracts) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 17th [...] Dine at 1/2 past six [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama.
They [i.e. P. B. Shel... | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany -- 5th. [...] Read Mazeppa.' | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817:
'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Works including The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817:
'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Reviews of the Corsair | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1837:
'I am sure I ought to be proud of my verses ["Victoria's ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Age of Bronze | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 June 1843:
'My dear Child is varying but no cough -- What a dear sw... | Mary Mordwinoff Haydon | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last ye... | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Byron's Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.' | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Turkish Tales' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Alfred Tennyson's] grandmother, the sister of the Reverend Samuel Turner, would assert: "Alfred's poetry all comes f... | Mary Turner | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Prisoner of Chillon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 September 1816:
'I have read with great pleasure the poem you lent me [Childe... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 15 September 1819:
'Thank you for the perusal of the letter; it is not very good... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Letter to the Editor of My Grandmother's Review' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819:
'I am agreeably disappointed by finding "Don Juan" very little off... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan: cantos I-II | Print: Book |