| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin... | Joseph Barker | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | 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 | John Locke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B... | William Blake | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition fr... | Anna Larpent | John Locke | Essay on human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of Locke's "Essay on Human Understanding", which I find to be a very abstruse book.' | Thomas Turner | John Locke | An essay concerning human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Locke | Treatise on the Reasonableness of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 5 Feb 1836 Mary Birch To John Birch (son) 'How kind it was in you to copy that appropriate passage in Locke; and I, wi... | John Birch | John Locke | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | John Locke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first Book of Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding",--in refutation of the doctrine of innate principle... | Thomas Green | John Locke | Essay concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Locke in my old age never having read him in my youth, a fine satisfactory sort of fellow but very long ... | Sydney Smith | John Locke | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [John Locke] "says it [is the] same faculty that invents judges". | William Blake | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Locke.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening' | Mary Godwin | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 1st book of Locke - read Curt - & work - Shelley reads Locke, Plutarch, & Paradise Lost aloud.' | Mary Godwin | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'. | Mary Godwin | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Ch... | Mary Godwin | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and wo... | Mary Godwin | John Locke | Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Feb. 13th. Begin Locke's essay on the Understanding'. | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Read 1st Chapter of Locke's Essay. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 18th. [...] Read Locke [goes on to make detailed notes].' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 14th. [...] Begin Locke's on the Understanding.'
['Read Locke' subsequently recorded in entries for 1... | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At twelve I enjoyed a literary life in all its pleasures. Metaphysics were my highest delights and after having read... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aeni... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Marianne Francis | John Locke | Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| | 'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi... | Samuel Johnson | John Locke | Some Thoughts Concerning Education | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on t... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | John Locke | | Manuscript: Manuscript notebook. |