| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'It is 11 o'clock. William has been reading the Fairy Queen -... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | Fairy Queen, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 16 November 1801: '... [William] is now, at 7 o'clock, reading Spenser.' | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 18 November 1801: 'We sate in the house in the morning reading Spenser.' | Wordsworth Family | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'After tea Wm. read Spenser, now and then a little al... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer a... | Mary Hutchinson | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene (Canto I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 16 March 1802: 'After dinner I read him [William Wordsworth] to sleep. ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 April 1802: We spent the morning in the orchard -- read the Prothalam... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | Prothalamium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 16 June 1802, 'I read the first Canto of the Fairy Queen to William.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene (Canto I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sa... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Rishton read "The Faerie Queene" to Frances Burney and her sisters, "in which he is extremely delicate, omitting w... | | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Moll Neville | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Abraham Cowley ... found that reading Spenser in his mother's parlor 'made [him] a Poet as immediately as a Chil... | Abraham Cowley | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha... | Susanna Highmore | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha... | Samuel Richardson | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the Fairy Queen aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Fairie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'This preoccupation with the sensuous form I experienced most obviously and acutely when I read with mounting exciteme... | Thomas A. Jackson | Edmund Spenser | Faery Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'. | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Queene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'. | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Queene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto)' | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Quene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Sh... | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Quene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto ... | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Queene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea S. reads Spencer aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Pliny and walk. S. reads a canto of Spencer' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Spencer aloud & finishes the first & begins the second book.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads aloud 6 eclogues from the Shepherds Calender[sic]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads a part of the Shepherds Calender [sic] aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer' | Mary Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Fowre Hymnes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer' | Mary Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Epithalamion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads to me Spencer's Virgil's Gnat' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | 'Virgil's Gnat' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Till lately I have never read Spenser, and therefore was not personally acquainted with his beauties. Neither do I me... | Emily Shore | Edmund Spenser | 'Hymn of Heavenly Beautie' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This evening I read Spenser's poem called 'Mother Hubbard's Tale', a very long one. It is evidently a satire on the c... | Emily Shore | Edmund Spenser | 'Mother Hubbard's Tale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I prop... | Thomas Carlyle | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.' | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Just now I opened Spencer, and the first Lines I saw were these.-
"The noble Heart that harbors vertuous thought,
A... | John Keats | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working ... | Wilfred Owen | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[James Mathias was on summer vacation and] when he came back my Father asked him what Books he had read - I read says... | James Mathias | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breer... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I co... | Robert Southey | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Edmund Spenser | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.' | John Ruskin | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.' | John Ruskin | Edmund Spenser [?] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Charles Stansfield | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Florence Reynolds | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Elizabeth Edminson | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:]
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, whi... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | ?The Works of Mr Edmund Spenser | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:]
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, whi... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:]
'All this while I have been hard at work upon [an edition of] Sp... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754, on his practice of writing sonnets:]
'The reading of Spenser's ... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | Sonnets | Print: Book |