| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel de Montaigne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the ess... | Alexander Pope | Michel de Montaigne | essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Lady Mary [Wortley Montagu] used French for some of the (relatively few) notes in her Montaigne." | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Michel de Montaigne | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | | Michel de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"... | Sarah Scott | Michel de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | Mary Berry | Michel de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have d... | Harriet Martineau | Michel de Montaigne | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am alone in the house, and so I allowed myself, at dinner, the first light reading I have indulged in since my retu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Les Essais | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As Montaigne says, talking of something quite different:"Pour se laisser tomber a plomb, et de si haut, il faut que s... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Les Essais, Livre III, Ch XII, De la physionomie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I have got an old translation of Montaignes essay... | Robert Southey | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |