| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 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 |
| 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 |