| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his firs... | Margaret Oliphant | George MacDonald | David Elginbrod | Manuscript: MS of a book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | George MacDonald | Alec Forbes of Howglen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'". | Agnes Blanche Hemming | George MacDonald | Alec Forbes of Howglen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Elinor Glyn recalled "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) being read to her as a child ...' | Elinor Glyn | George MacDonald | The Princess and the Goblin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | George Macdonald | The Princess and the Goblin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, "Within and Without" (published in 1855, but written a few years ea... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Macdonald | Within and Without | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | George Macdonald | [probably] Princess and Curdie, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I sat down to read "the Vicar's Daughter" & got so interested in it that I began to read tit bits alou... | John Buckley Castieau | George MacDonald | The Vicar's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lady Byron was to [George] MacDonald the protectress, the adviser, and once at least the extremely rigorous critic.
... | Anne Isabella Lady Noel Byron | George MacDonald | Within and Without | Print: Book |