| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Uriah Plant, a wheelwright's son, affirmed that "My uncertainty about the truth of religion not only increased my sen... | Uriah Plant | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Thomas Paine | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I h... | Francis Place | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican vie... | Jim Flowers | Thomas Paine | [unknown -Rights of Man?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On 9 April 1792 Anna Margaretta Larpent rose at 7.30, a little earlier than her usual, "spent some time", as she desc... | Anna Larpent | Thomas Paine | Rights of man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Man... | Daniel Bamford | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with ... | William Edwin Adams | Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men... | Daniel Bamford | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Paine's "Rights of Man, or Answer to Burke" being now lately come out & much talked of, we got it in our society and ... | John Marsh | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Pa... | Joseph Gutteridge | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she reads the Italian'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man; being an answer to Burke's attack on the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, h... | King George III | Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Rights of man.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during t... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The American Crisis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during t... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Common Sense | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday February 1st. [...] Read Paine [...] In Paine I find an account of the English cruelties in America and India'. | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The American Crisis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Feb. 2nd. [...] Read Paine's Works.' | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | works | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 4th Read Paine [goes on to make detailed notes of issues concerning the American War of Independence, ba... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The American Crisis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [ma... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Letter to the Abbe Raynal | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedi... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Letter to the Abbe Raynal | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Feb. 8th. Read Paine's Rights of Man.
'Wednesday Feb 9th. [...] Read Rights of Man first part --
'Thur... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man (Part 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the sec... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man (Part 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rig... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication.
... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Common Sense' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Common Sense | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Letter addressed to the Abbi Raynal on the Affairs of North America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Age of Reason' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Age of Reason' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rights of Man' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |