| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | The Duenna | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | | Print: Book |
| | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take... | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Monody on Garrick | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty ... | Percy Wall | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (pen name? in any case, not the 18th c playwright) | The Filipino Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pupils at Queen's College remembered the puritanical standards imposed by Owen Breen, English and Elocution Professor... | English class, Queen's College | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'. | Hilary Spalding | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Rivals, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I did a lot of "The Rivals", which I don't like a bit. It has momentary flashes of wit, but otherwise it's awful.' | Hilary Spalding | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Rivals, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Critic, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Rivals, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to hear Mr and Mrs Wigan read Tennyson and "the Rivals" at Apsley House'. | Mr and Mrs Wigan | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | The Rivals | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcribed in what appears to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'With modest sidelong look and downcase glance / Behold the... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 'The Walse' also entitled 'The Waltz' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Sheridan's "Life of Swift"....' | Thomas Green | Thomas Sheridan | Life of Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 'Novel of "Nourjahad" in the evening. Nothing, I think, can be more happily conceived for its purpose, ... | Thomas Green | Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan | The History of Nourjahad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan, in "The Life of Swift", which he af... | James Boswell | Thomas Sheridan | Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculc... | James Boswell | Frances Sheridan | Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculc... | Samuel Johnson | Frances Sheridan | Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Before dinner Dr. Johnson seized upon Mr. Charles Sheridan's "Account of the late Revolution in Sweden", and seemed t... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Sheridan | History of the late revolution in Sweden , A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Critic, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was pleased with Harry. This evening he read a scene with me from the School for Scandal & showed a good deal underst... | Harry Castieau | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very... | Castieau family | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'I have been reading Sidney Biddulph. ... | Robert Southey | Frances Sheridan | Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I begin to find like Joseph Surface that too good a character is inconvenient.' | Walter Scott | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I don't know what I have done to gain so much credit for generosity but I suspect I owe it to being supposed, as Puff... | Walter Scott | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | The Critic | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'By Mr B Sheridan Esq to his Wife'. | Catherine Austen | Sheridan | [verses to his wife] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Verses by R. B. Sheridan Esq' | Catherine Austen | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Verses | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 4 January 1827:
'After tea I broke off work and read my young folks the farce of The Critic and "merry fo... | Walter Scott | R. B. Sheridan | The Critic | Print: Book |