| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | John Ruskin | Unto this Last | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 18... | Grant Duff | John Ruskin | Praeterita | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Through reading Unto This Last ... Violet Markham -- who was brought up at Tapton House, set in 85 beautiful Derbyshi... | Violet Markham | John Ruskin | Unto This Last | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partri... | Millicent Duchess of Sutherland | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | The Political Economy of Art | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | Cestus of Aglaia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the s... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | Crown of Wild Olives | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver wan... | Anna Blunden | John Ruskin | The Elements of Drawing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the ti... | Anna Blunden | John Ruskin | Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds | |
| 1800-1849 | From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; ... | John Heaton | John Ruskin | The Seven Lamps of Architecture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Mod... | Ellen Heaton | John Ruskin | Modern Painters I and II | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the towe... | Ellen Heaton | John Ruskin | Modern Painters IV | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volu... | Ellen Heaton | John Ruskin | Modern Painters III | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -s... | Edmund Gosse | John Ruskin | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of min... | Leslie Stephen | John Ruskin | Fors [Clavigera] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some... | Leslie Stephen | John Ruskin | Fors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquain... | Leslie Stephen | John Ruskin | Praeterita | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquain... | Leslie Stephen | John Ruskin | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | John Ruskin | The Crown of Wild olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Winnie Seerbohm, who left Newnham College, Cambridge in November 1885 after only one term's study, suffered from what... | Winnie Seerbohm | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain ... | Mary Augusta Arnold | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands... | Chester Armstrong | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands... | Chester Armstrong | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands... | Chester Armstrong | John Ruskin | The Seven Lamps of Architecture | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands... | Chester Armstrong | John Ruskin | The Crown of Wild Olives | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to ... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | John Ruskin | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading the "Seven Lamps of Architecture", some part very pretty, other by writing fine [though] very nonsensi... | Charlotte Mary Yonge | John Ruskin | Seven Lamps of Architecture | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | John Ruskin | Crown of Wild Olive: Three lectures on work, traffic and war | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's "King of the Gold... | Norman Nicholson | John Ruskin | King of the Golden River | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850:
'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Ruskin | Lectures on Architecture and Painting | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A reminiscence of reading John Ruskin's autobiography, Praeterita (pub 1881-6) at work. Published in The Wheatsheaf:
... | Ethel Carnie | John Ruskin | Praeterita | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They ce... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Ruskin | Lectures on Architecture and Painting | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '?I am reading Ruskin?s "Stones of Venice"with great pleasure. He can [italics] write [end italics] a few, can?t he?' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Ruskin | Stones of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | Noel Odell | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Ruskin | Seven Lamps of Architecture, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Seven Lamps of Architecture, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave g... | Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins a... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with fi... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | 'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The Pleasures of England') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | Introduction to Notes on Turner drawings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | John Ruskin | Unto this Last | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a ... | Blanche Ridges | John Ruskin | Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a ... | Charles Stansfield | John Ruskin | Unto this Last | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously att... | Alfred Rawlings | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously att... | XII Book Club | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa... | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.' | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26' | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer ... | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read diary of spring 1873 - what a change!' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read entry in this journal for 8th and 9th September!' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Si... | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Wa... | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | [notes] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read this morning my entries early in 1877.' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | Deucalion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'I recalled Ruskin's words in the Preface to "Sesame and Lilies": "Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain point and ... | Vera Brittain | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |