| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr de Regis read us "Semiramis" a fine trajedy of Voltaire what gave me great pleasure'. | [Mr] de Regis | Voltaire [pseud.] | Semiramis | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Volta... | Thomas Carlyle | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Pucelle d'Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Voltaire before breakfast (87)' | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her R... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Voltaire Essai sur des Nations' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | 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 | Voltaire [pseud.] | Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads "France" - read Romans de Voltaire - Hume' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Zaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Alzire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 10th Canto of Ariosto - the Mahomet of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Mahomet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Merope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Tragedie de Semiramis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Tancrede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | L'Orphelin de Chine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Greek - Voltaire's Tales' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that... | Mr Sharpe | Voltaire [pseud.] | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | James Boswell | Voltaire [pseud.] | Candide: Or, All for the Best | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | Samuel Johnson | Voltaire [pseud.] | Candide: Or, All for the Best | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Voltaire [pseud.] | Zadig | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Tancred | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is ... | John Ruskin | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Mary Robson | Voltaire [pseud.] | Zadig | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Katherine Evans | Voltaire [pseud.] | Letters on England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Francis Pollard | Voltaire [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | C. Elliott | Voltaire [pseud.] | | Print: Book |