| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispen... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Scudamore | A Chemical and Medical Report of the Properties of | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Thomas De Quincey] got round to reading ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] only in late June or early Ju... | Thomas De Quincey | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleri... | Charles Lamb | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D... | Chester Armstrong | James Fenimore Cooper | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair... | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lect... | Anne Lister | Dr Scudamore | Lectures on physiology | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pur... | Charles Robert Maturin | Hannah More | Coelebs in search of a wife | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patron... | Frances Burney | Hannah More | Coelebs in search of a wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power ... | Anna Larpent | Hannah More | Percy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Lorna Doone" and loved it. Must try to get it next hols.' | Hilary Spalding | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Slept all morning, then read quite a lot of "Utopia" in afternoon, & really it is very interesting (once you get over... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England th... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | Shepherd of Salisbury Plain | Print: Book, chapbooks |
| 1800-1849 | 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | Farmer's fireside | Print: Book, chapbook |
| 1800-1849 | 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | Discontented pendulum | Print: Book, chapbook |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Coventry Patmore | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now thank you very much for your able inauguration essay on Architecture and live in expectation of its successors.' | Alfred Tennyson | Coventry Patmore | The aesthetics of gothic architecture | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though b... | Mary Berry | Hannah More | Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 10 July 1789: 'I enclose a most beautiful copy of verses which Miss H[annah]. More wrote... | Horace Walpole | Hannah More | [verses on opening of walk by Bishop of London] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return to my Letter writing from calling on Miss Harriot Webb [...] She appears well pleased with her new Home - & ... | Harriot Webb | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | The Theological Works of the most pious and learned Henry More, DD Sometime Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | Philosophical Poems, etc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica, and Anima Magica abscondita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | The Second Lash of Alazonomastix | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which Fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more th... | Sarah H. Burney | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought Wolstonecraft's "View of the French Revolution", from the Chapel Library, for Miss Haynes to read. Read in Mi... | Joseph Hunter | Hannah More | Sacred Dramas: Chiefly intended for Young Persons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern... | Mary Birch | Hannah More | Memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and o | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [unde... | Elizabeth Marshall | Hannah More | Practical piety | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme", a pretty book; and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Henry More | An antidote against atheism, or, An appeal to the naturall faculties of the minde of man, whether there be not a God | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's "Introduction to Music", a very goo... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Morely | A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud' | Mary Shelley | Thomas More | Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Utopia' | Mary Shelley | Thomas More | Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more th... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am also reading with great veneration, but some degree of despondency, Practical Piety. The Chapter on "Comparative... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Andre Morellet | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we
spoke some million words be... | Philip Morrell | Philip Morell | Letter to John Middleton Murry regarding his review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems, in The Nation 13 July 1918 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading on Sundays "Morehead's Discourses on the Principle of Religious Belief", which are greatly admired, thou... | Miss V[-] | Robert Morehead | A Series Of Discourses On The Principles of Religious Belief | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have recieved Maga with the inclosures safe to night but have only as yet got her looked over. For one thing I perc... | James Hogg | More | 'Hymn to Hesperus' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have to thank you for Morel's pamphlet which reached me from L'pool a few days ago.There can be no doubt that his p... | Joseph Conrad | E.(Edward) D.(Dene) Morel | The Congo Slave State. | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Hannah More | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What philosophy suggests to us on this topick [the possibility of life after death] is probable: what Scripture tells... | Samuel Johnson | Henry More | [theological works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Aubrey De Vere writes] 'In 1854 I went [...] to Farringford, where the poet [Tennyson] then made abode with his wife ... | Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De Vere | Coventry Patmore | The Angel in the House | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regim... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Morer | Short Account of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Miss Hannah More has admirably described a [italics] Blue-stocking Club [end italics], in her "Bas Bleu", a poem in w... | James Boswell | Hannah More | Bas Bleu; or Conversation | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | R. D. Blackmore | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I get "Lorna Doone". It is a good book so far.' | Thomas Kitching | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Mrs Hannah More says in her "Essay on Saint Paul," that he ... | C.M.G. [anon] | Hannah More | Essay on Saint Paul | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sir T. More in evening' | John Ruskin | Sir Thomas More | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 10 March 1826:
'Breakfasted with me Mr. Francks [...] and Captain Longmore of the Royal Staff. He has writt... | Walter Scott | Captain George Longmore | Tales of Chivalry and Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines by Hannah More (“Mrs H. More”) beginnin... | Catherine Austen | Hannah More | Sensibility | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“A Search after Happiness H. More” beginning... | Catherine Austen | Hannah More | A Search after Happiness | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:]
'The verses from my fair [italics]Pupil[end italics], as she d... | Thomas Edwards | Miss Highmore | sonnet | Unknown |