| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and S... | Thomas Frost | Charles de Secondat, Baron Montesquieu | The Persian Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend t... | Maria Edgeworth | Charles-Louis Montesquieu | Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...' | Thomas Green | Montesquieu | De l?esprit des loix | 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 | Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Bred et de Montesquieu | Lettres persanes | 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 ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu | Lettres persanes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shephe... | Mary Shelley | Charles de Secondat, baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu | Lettres persanes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Mo... | Alfred Tennyson | Montesquieu | Decadence des Romains | Print: Book |