| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | Laurence Sterne | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orot... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentime... | Frances Burney | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Edmund Ferrars's annotations to his copy of Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey: "A note on the... | Edmund Ferrars | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even Mr Tipper read to me part of a -I know not what to call it but "Tristram Shandy".' | Thomas Tipper | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Who is this Yorick? you are pleased to ask me. You cannot, I imagine have looked into his books: execrable I cannot b... | Samuel Richardson | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | Laurence Sterne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Trist... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilat... | Horace Walpole | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilat... | Horace Walpole | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.' | Jane Austen | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spi... | Thomas Carlyle | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773 '?he shewed so much ingenuity in discovering faults in every ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar April 11 1803 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read th... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | [probably] Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy.' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 27th. [...] Read Tristram Shandy.' | Claire Clairmont | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sterne's Sentimental Journey' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii]
'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate... | Samuel Johnson | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had latel... | Samuel Johnson | Laurence Sterne | Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Laurence Sterne | ife and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897. | George Otto Trevelyan | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. As I am ignorant of the tune I beg yo... | Robert Southey | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 10 October and 19 November 1880]
'The evening readings of Tristram Shandy created in L... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Sha... | Albert John Martin | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |