| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. | Mary Smith | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "[S. T.] C[oleridge] stayed up until one o'clock in the morning to read Tytler's translation of The Robbers ... " | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | The Robbers | Print: Book |
| | 'On 16 March 1840 W[ordsworth] told [Henry Crabb] Robinson that "C[oleridge]. translated the 2nd part of Wallenstein u... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | The Death of Wallenstein | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | Friedrich Schiller | William Tell | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 20 August 1800: 'Read Wallenstein and sent it off ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Friedrich von Schiller | Wallenstein (in translation by S. T. Coleridge) | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ... | Henry James | Friedrich von Schiller | Maria Stuart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and G... | Felicia Hemans | Friedrich von Schiller | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-so... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Schiller | Geschichte des dreissigj?hrigen Kriegs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The colossal "Wallenstein" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Schiller | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [27th December]'I took my lessons and learnt part of a superb tragedy in german called "Don Carlos" with Mr Jaegle.'
... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos in German | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Mary Godwin | Johann Friedrich von Schiller | Der Geisterseher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Friedrich] Schiller | The robbers [and two other plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thought to rise at five on Thursday morning, but fatigue made my head bad. I slept till nine - I opened "Mary Stew... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Mary Stewart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Maria Stuart | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but him... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | William Tell | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more diff... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Fiesco Or, The Conspiracy of Genoa: an Historical Tragedy | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am daily expecting a letter from you on the subject of the Life of Schiller. I have got a copy of his Works beside... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Schiller | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The King then asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill. Johnson answered, he was an ingenious man, but had no veracity; ... | Samuel Johnson | Dr Hill | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Friedrich Schiller | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | Margaret Gissing | Friedrich Schiller | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Threadneedle Street, 14th Octobe... | George Grote | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'Have you read Cabal & Love? in spite of a transla... | Robert Southey | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | Cabal and Love | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the ... | Robert Southey | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | The Ghost Seer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the ... | Robert Southey | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | Fiesco; or the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy | Print: Book |