√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon. | Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that great poet (1720) OR A Burlesque Translation of Homer (3rd edn of same piece, 1770) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'music, "Arabian Nights", and Darwin.' | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | anon. | Arabian Nights, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Hebrew Migration" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical... | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Hebrew Migration from Egypt, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Prose Edda, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On... | William Somerset Maugham | [anon.] | Thousand Nights and One Night, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | anon. | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Jean anon. | [tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you saw Lara; and am indebted for your account of it. I read the review of it in the Quarterly review?some ... | Thomas Carlyle | anon. | [review in the Quarterly Review Byron's Lara] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you... | Sydney Smith | Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.] | Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou... | Sydney Smith | William Pitt Scargill [anon.] | Elizabeth Evanshaw | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou... | Sydney Smith | [anon.] | Three Months in Ireland. By an English Protestant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | [anon.] | Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey [anon.] | Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the Spanish | 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 | [anon.] | Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries | 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 | Edmund Burke [anon.] | A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord **** | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening' | Mary Godwin | Caroline Lamb (anon.) | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not well - read Glenarvon all day and finish it'. | Mary Godwin | Caroline Lamb (anon.) | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'. | Mary Godwin | Maria Edgeworth (anon.) | Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Maria Edgeworth (anon.) | Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Tuesday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | [anon.] | Rhoda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,... | Samuel Johnson | anon. | Speculum humanae Salvationis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | anon. | [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons'] | 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 | Anon. | ife and Memoirs of Mr Ephraim Tristram Bates, commonly called Corporal Bates, a broken-hearted Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Louisa and I began this day to read French. Our book was a little light piece of French gallantry entitled 'Journal A... | James Boswell and Louisa | [anon.] | Journal Amoureux | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Lights Out, Bayley reads a poem - anonymous. "J'y suis, j'y reste" about the war in Malaya. It is good and comp... | Thomas Kitching | anon. | J'y suis, J'y reste | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'A Conservative Song, to the tune of "There... | | Anon. Traditional | A Conservative Song | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so... | Ursula Unwin | anon. | Everyman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so... | Ernest E. Unwin | anon. | York Miracle Cycle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Alfred Rawlings | Anon. | Migrations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | [anon. member of XII Book Club] | Scandalous Affair, A | Manuscript: Unknown |