√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Emile Zola | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, wa... | William Ewart Gladstone | Emile Zola | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 13 May 1885: " ... the only thing I have read from la-bas [ie France] is the wondrou... | Henry James | Emile Zola | Germinal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 25 July 1896: '"Rome" is of a [italics] lourdeur [end italics] -- as I read it here at t... | Henry James | Emile Zola | Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart fr... | Arnold Bennett | Emile Zola | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Pot-Bouille"; "Pot-Bouille" made me laugh, there is one good character' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Emile Zola | Pot-Bouille | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th September 1928.
Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and someho... | Gerald Moore | Emile Zola | Une Page d'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Emile Zola | La Fortune des Rougon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Emile Zola | Son Excellence Eugene Rougon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Emile Zola | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Emile Zola | [unknown] | Print: Book |