| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from... | Richard Pyke | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | Thomas Hardy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college... | Margaret Wharton | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...[Newman] Flower as a boy read and idolized Hardy ...' | Newman Flower | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machi... | Eva Slawson | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, wa... | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Hardy | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I ... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Hardy | Far from the madding crowd | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I ... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Hardy | The Wessex Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Edith] Hall recalled that she discovered Thomas Hardy in a WEA class in the 1920s when "Punch and other publications... | Edith Hall | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | A.E. Coppard | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do"... | Rosamond Lehmann | Thomas Hardy | [poem in the London Mercury] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Long sections of [Thomas] Hardy's "Memoir" had been read out to two of the [radical society (?London Corresponding So... | | Thomas Hardy | Memoir of Thomas Hardy, Founder of, and Secretary to, the London Corresponding Society ... From its Establishment in Jan. 1792 until his arrest on a False Charge of High Treason On the 12th of May 1794. Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Charlotte [Mew] [...] was a passionate reader of Thomas Hardy'. | Charlotte Mew | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of ... | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy | poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'asked Florence [Hardy] to read ... | Florence Hardy | Thomas Hardy | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Thomas Hardy | [nature and the countryside] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You might, if you care, read my criticism of Hardy?s new novel in Wednesday next?s Woman ?though it contains little a... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 January 1915: 'We [Virginia Woolf and Janet Case] talked about [...] life in London & Hardy's poems which s... | Janet Case | Thomas Hardy | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 3 September 1918: 'Last night, L[eonard]. read Hardy's poems aloud.' | Leonard Woolf | Thomas Hardy | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 5 January 1936: 'My head is quiet today, soothed by reading the Trumpet Major last night'. | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Hardy | The Trumpet-Major | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 24 September 1911:
'It's something to be near fine country [Simla] [...] Whether ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Hardy | novels | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Woodlanders, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sometimes when I think ... of the Dream-city, with its grey towers and autumn sunsets, and the little room where sur... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A verse from Thomas Hardy's "In time of the Breaking of Nations" floated into my mind from the volume of his poems th... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hardy | In Time of the Breaking of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Wilfred Owen | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Siegfried Sassoon | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another writer D.J. rated highly was Thomas Hardy, whose novel "Jude the Obscure" he used to read and re-read with wh... | David John Thomas | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | [minor poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Florence Reynolds | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Sylvanus Reynolds | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | 'Three Travellers, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Rosamund Wallis | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Charles Evans | Thomas Hardy | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Reginald Robson | Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | T. C. Elliott | Thomas Hardy | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Helen Rawlings | Thomas Hardy | Return of the Native, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Muriel Bowman Smith | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Dorothy Brain | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | George Burrow | Thomas Hardy | Dynasts, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.' | Siegfried Sassoon | Thomas Hardy | The Return of the Native | Print: Book |