| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Bro [Barrett's eldest brother, Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett] read prayers. Afterwards he read Lord John Russell?s s... | Edward Moulton-Barrett | John Russell | [Speech on Reform] | |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Bertrand Russell | Essays in Scepticism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's las... | John Ruskin | Lord John Russell | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Rus... | Elizabeth Ring | Bertrand Russell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | Bertrand Russell | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | Rutherford Russell | History and Heroes of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We finished today to read Russels "Modern History", which is perfectly well wrote and in a very intertaining [sic] ma... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have als... | John Mitchel | Russell (ed.) | [Palestine] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 2d. Vol. of Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...' | Thomas Green | William Russell | The History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, Your good and kind father has just given Nancy a copy of a little volume of poems, in which I f... | William Cobbett | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on t... | S.J. Pratt | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of poems which Messrs. Longman transmitted to me a few days s... | J. Mitford | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Madam, Dr. Russell's verses are very highly welcomed. I like them very much. There is great simplicit, neatness... | R.A. Davenport | Dr Russell | Verses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The story of "Blanch", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make ... | J.P. Smith | Mary Russell Mitford | Blanch of Castile and other poems | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, I am really ashamed of not having answered your very obliging and interesting letter, and not hving acknowledg... | Lord Holland | Mary Russell Mitford | Poems on the Female Character | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished your poem of "The Sisters", and tell you truly and fairly that I read it with an interest and de... | Sir William Elford | Mary Russell Mitford | The Sisters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [He wishes to express] 'the high gratification I have received from the perusal of "Foscari". I must frankly tell you ... | P. Bayley | Mary Russell Mitford | Foscari | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was much better pleased with it ["Foscari"] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somew... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Mary Russell Mitford | Foscari | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for it ["Cromwell"]. It is a strange, clever, absurd, lively, queer, farcical, indescribable production. It... | Dr Milman | Mary Russell Mitford | Cromwell | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I a... | | Mary Russell Mitford | Fanny's Fairings | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of "Rienzi", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown aw... | Alexander Dyce | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for ... | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German E... | G.E. Lynch Cotton | Mary Russell Mitford | Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in S... | Susanna Strickland | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling... | Catharine M. Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford,I cannot miss the opportunity my aunt allows me of writing to the author of "Our Village," to ex... | Kate Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She speaks of "Inez" as about to be produced. I have been long expecting to hear that it was out. Do you remember rea... | Fanny Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Inez | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, May I be permitted to address thus familiarly a lady with whom, though not personally acquainte... | Emma Roberts | Mary Russell Mitford | works | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing ... | Fanny Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his ... | Catharine M. Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both m... | Mary Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The most truly English sketches in the language are your country volumes. Well, through these volumes we have been we... | Mary and William Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes,... | Barbara Hofland | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our little community have been delighting themselves with your "Belford Regis"; accept their untied thanks for it [..... | Catharine Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last f... | N.P. Willis | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you ... | Alfred Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you ... | Miss Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so st... | Mary Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Russell | Tour in Germany, and some of the southern provinces of the Austrian Empire, in... 1820, 1821, 1822 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Julian Bell, 14 November 1936:
'Politics are still raging faster and fiercer [...] Leonard is try... | Leonard Woolf | Bertrand Russell | Which Way to Peace? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 4 March 1918: 'I found a silent group at the [1917] Club, all men, & unknown to me, with the
exception of Alix who s... | Alix Sargant-Florence | Bertrand Russell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 6 June 1918: 'I've seen Alix [...] She is able to conceive the possibility of one day finding
some book to read. She... | Alix Sargant-Florence | Bertrand Russell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I employed myself in the evening, reading Lord John Russell's life of his ancestor Lord William Russell. The preface ... | Charlotte Bury | Lord John Russell | Life of William Lord Russell, with Some Account of the Times | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had a nice day yesterday lying out under the trees in a deck-chair reading Bertie Russell's "On Education". A good... | Harold Nicolson | Bertrand Russell | On Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 29 August 1807:
'I find Modern Europe real... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Russell | 'Modern Europe' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks. I've just read the first chapter at once to take possession and have laid the book ["The Problems of Phi... | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | The Problems of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am glad I read the little book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] before coming to your essays ["Philosophical Essays"]... | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | Philosophical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As for yourself — I have been dwelling with you mentally for several days between the covers of your book [...].' | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | Analysis of Mind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When your book ["The Problem of China"] arrived we were away for a few days. Perhaps [...] I should have acknowledge... | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | The Problem of China | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Mary Pollard | George William Russell | Gandhi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty... | Douglas Herbert Bell | George William Russell | "Shadows and Lights" | Print: Unknown |