√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be... | Arnold Bennett | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Edith Wharton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Edith Wharton | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter to Edith Wharton of 17 August 1902, writes to her of 'lately having read "The Valley of Decisio... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The Valley of Decision | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 February 1905: '[...] your good letter has found me on the very point of writing to yo... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth (second instalment) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 November 1905, in praise of the conclusion to "The House of Mirth": 'Half an hour ago,... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth (final instalment) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 24 November 1907: 'I have read "The Fruit [of the Tree", in copy sent by Wharton][...] w... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The Fruit of the Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 4 December 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'Your beautiful Book ["The Reef: A Nove... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The Reef: A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm reading "A Son at the Front" in book form. The wife reads serials in magazines which I don't.' | Rudyard Kipling | Edith Wharton | A Son at the Front | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934:
'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [... | Virginia Woolf | Edith Wharton | A Backward Glance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underl... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Edith Wharton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The first 60 pages [of "Summer"] might well have been written with one of those quill feathers one finds lying on a q... | Joseph Conrad | Edith Wharton | Summer | Print: Book |