| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'That time Lord Tennyson was delightful - kind and friendly and full of stories, talking a great deal, and in the best... | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Funeral Ode | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve... | Alice Thompson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris... | Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell, later Baron Shinwell | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tenny... | Mrs Hughes | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Locksley Hall | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ... | John Masefield | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Dying Swan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1943 My Favourite:
Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood".
Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole
Poems: ... | Hilary Spalding | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Lotos Eaters, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading Tennyson's "Summer Evening", which is a lovely poem, full of pictures.' | Hilary Spalding | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Summer Evening | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the busin... | William Edwin Adams | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Tennyson; Hunt an... | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Morte d'Arthur | Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Maud [and other poems?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... such cursed nonsense as the last thing in Good Words. Oh! Alfred Tennyson! Alfred Tennyson, oh!' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | '1865-1866' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have just been reading "Maud". Do not fear, dear; it has not been unpleasant to me; I see and know and accept all t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Maud; A Monodrama | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I tried to read Tennyson?s Ode on the Dook of Wellington (which is the finest lyrical poem in the language in case yo... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like your expression of 'an unwritten tragedy'. It quite answers to the sadness which fills my heart as I look on s... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Deserted House, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does n... | Samuel Bamford | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Oenone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does n... | Samuel Bamford | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Sleeping Beauty, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Tennyson' has arrived safe, without a shadow of damage and thanks without end for it. I have been half-opening the p... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Gaskell describes handing over the gift of a signed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford] 'I said, 'Look at the... | Samuel Bamford | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Sleeping Beauty, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte... | John Betjeman | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Ulysses' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte... | John Betjeman | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Morte d'Arthur' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty year... | Zoe Procter | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | Florence Reynolds | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | Elizabeth Edminson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | T.T. Cass | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | Allan Goadby | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | John Ridges | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Sir Galahad' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | John Ridges | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'St Agnes' Eve' | 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 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Complete Poems | Print: Book |