| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's T... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The King's Tragedy | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - ... | John Ruskin | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The Burden of Nineveh | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | poems including Jenny | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before leaving BIdeford, he told Osborne, he had read Rossetti's poems "rapturously":
"I am mad about Rossetti eve... | Arthur Symons | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 'Sister Helen' | Print: Unknown |