| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | Nathaniel Hawthorne | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Nathaniel Hawthorne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of the Seven Gables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Nathaniel Hawthorne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "The Scarlet Letter".' | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi... | Christopher Grieve | Nathaniel Hawthorne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ... | Edwin Muir | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Marble Faun, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as ev... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Marble Faun, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I
dare say you
don't car... | Florence De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | "Drowne's Wooden Image" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Twice-Told Tales | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Blithedale Romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I
read over the other day a... | Margaret De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I
read over the other day a... | Thomas De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables | Print: Book |