| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for coining:
"Arthur Cross deposed, that he was reading the newspaper at the Black RAven... | Arthur Cross | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'V.S. Pritchett had an uncle, an atheist cabinet-maker, who taught himself to read from The Anatomy of Melancholy, eve... | Arthur | Robert Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Arthur Benson ... when rereading the Shorter Poems [of Robert Bridges] in 1910, thought them thin, mere tricks of lan... | Arthur Benson | Robert Bridges | Shorter Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 19 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls having finished "Jane Eyre" is now crying out for the ... | Arthur Bell Nicholls | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with i... | Arthur Bell Nicholls | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with i... | Arthur Bell Nicholls | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte Nicholls to Ellen Nussey, 20 October 1854: "Arthur has just been glancing over this note -- He thinks... | Arthur Bell Nicholls | Charlotte Bronte | note to Ellen Nussey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a profe... | Arthur Harding | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a profe... | Arthur Harding | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses many of the volumes in his collection of books about spiritualism and parapsychologic... | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | L. Margery Bazett | After-Death Communications | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Sir Arthur Helps to the publisher Macmillan, 'I have lately re-read "Deerbrook" with exceeding delight.' | Sir Arthur Helps | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | John Webster | The Duchess of Malfi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Arthur became interested in "humanity" when he discovered George Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel "Lavengro" (185... | Arthur Symons | George Borrow | Lavengro | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before leaving BIdeford, he told Osborne, he had read Rossetti's poems "rapturously":
"I am mad about Rossetti eve... | Arthur Symons | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 'Sister Helen' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In June, a three-volume novel titled "Circe's Lovers" appeared, written by Leith Derwent (the pseudonym of John Veitc... | Arthur Symons | Leith Derwent [pseud.] | Circe's Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's "A Modern Instance" as "a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterl... | Arthur Symons | William Dean Howells | A Modern Instance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now he discovered "one of Swinburne's models" - Gautier: "I have just bought is "Emaux et Camees", he told Osborne, "... | Arthur Symons | Theophile Gautier | Emaux et Camees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In discussing Meredith's "Evan Harrington" (1861) in a letter to Campbell, Arthur reveals his Victorian-orientated in... | Arthur Symons | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I suffered very much in that shop through all the summer months. At that time we went to live at Malmaison and it wa... | Arthur Vanson | unknown | [penny dreadfuls] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My brothers and I have lived the book ["Treasure Island"] many times and the Bois de Boulogne is full of places that ... | Arthur Vanson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I try to read always with a very open mind, wide away [awake?] to assimilate all the author's knowledge. I have suc... | Arthur Vanson | Pierre de Coulerain | Au Coeur de la Vie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | The Ordeal of Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Vittoria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Rhoda Fleming | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Harry Richmans | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | Professor Seccombe | [articles in the "Bookman"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr N. never knew, till long after Shirley was published, that she wrote books; and came in, cold & disapproving one d... | Arthur Bell Nicholls | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I communicated this Letter [from Colley Cibber, reproduced in the text] to Lord Chief Baron [italics] Bowes [end ital... | Arthur Hill, Lord Bowes | Colley Cibber | [letter to LP] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father said of his friend: "Arthur Hallam could take in the most abstruse ideas with the utmost rapidity and insig... | Arthur Hallam | Rene Descartes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830:
'I am living here in a very plea... | Arthur Hallam | David Hartley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830:
'I am living here in a very plea... | Arthur Hallam | Buhle | Philosophie Moderne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading ... | Arthur Hallam | Susan Ferrier | Destiny | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading ... | Arthur Hallam | Susan Ferrier | Inheritance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Arthur Hallam | Sir William Blackstone | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Arthur Hallam | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson:
'I have been reading Mrs Jameson's Characteristics, and I am so bewildered with s... | Arthur Hallam | Mrs Jameson | Characteristics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson [...] said that Clough as he lay on the grass... | Arthur Hugh Clough | Arthur Hugh Clough | Mari Magno | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 15 November 1809:
'I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 20... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | John Wilson Croker | The Battles of Talavera | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's notes on conversations with the Duke of Wellington at Beaudesert:
'"The Subaltern" [Mr Gl... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | Gleig | 'The Subaltern' | |
| 1800-1849 | The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 16 March 1831:
'I had read the Report of your speech in the newspaper... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | | Report on John Wilson Croker's speech on the first Reform Bill, 4 March 1831 | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 16 March 1831:
'I had read the Report of your speech in the newspaper... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | John Wilson Croker | Speech on the first Reform Bill, 4 March 1831 | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Diary, 3 October 1834:
'I happened to mention the profuse fabrication of French Memoires,... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | Fouche | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 31 December 1840:
'I will not deny myself the satisfaction of telling... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | John Wilson Croker | article on British foreign policy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Tancred | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there is unlimited room for reading between these well-known and monotonous banks. The Prince set his mind on my read... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Mrs Henry Wood | East Lynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already o... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | [n/a] | Psalms | Print: Book |