| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charles and Mary Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Benjamin Disraeli | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'mother would summon me to her side and open an enormous Bible. It was invariably at the Old Testament, and I had to r... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Bible (Old Testament), the | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My English history was derived from a small book in small print that dealt with the characters of the kings at some l... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not as a lesson, but for sheer pleasure, did I browse in "A Child's History of Rome", a book full of good stories.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | A Child's History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For scientific notions I had Dr. Brewer's "Guide to Science", in the form of a catechism.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Dr Brewer | Guide to Science | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course I had a shelf for my books..."Rosy's Voyage Around the World" was prime favourite.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Rosy's Voyage Around the World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My own treasures are nearly all with me still, showing only the honourable marks of age and continual reading...' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Little Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Alice in Wonderland" we all knew practically by heart.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I...... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Lewis Carroll | Through the Looking Glass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The story itself was an allegory, and was too subtle for us, but it is impossible to describe the endless pleasure gi... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Story without an End | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was entirely due to its colour that another book became my constant companion. This was an illustrated Scripture t... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some of the boys' prizes fell into my keeping, handed to me in disgust. One of these, "The Safe Compass", afforded me... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Safe Compass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many people of my age must have imbibed their early religious notions from the same book that I did.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Peep of the Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was placed in the lowest class with three other little girls of my own age, who were reading aloud the story of Ric... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My new history book was "Little Arthur", which one could read like a delightful story.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Little Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Hans Christian Andersen | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Good Words for the Young | Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes |
| 1850-1899 | 'Again and again I turned to something entitled "The Dark Journey", only to find it was an account of one's digestion.... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Dark Journey | Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes of a periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Henry Milner | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I concluded that no one could really be as good as this book wanted and that it was a fearful waste of time.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Narrow Way | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Among the treasures we rooted out...were an illustrated Prayer Book, gone quite brown with age and damp. When tired o... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Surely no book was ever read and re-read and talked over as that first new volume, although we went on to buy many mo... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Robert Michael Ballantyne | The Iron Horse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flowers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Cassell's Magazine provided stronger meat...and I think every word of it found some reader in the family.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Cassell's Family Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Jules Verne | Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wedding-bells were the usual end to our stories, of which "The Heir of Redclyffe" was a fair sample. Needless to say ... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Heir of Redclyffe | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 1"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason f... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understo... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Gladstone | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only social event she goes to is the Sunday afternoon tea run by her chapel. Again she has not made many friends ... | Molly | Charles Dickens | A tale of two cities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Molly MacCarthy | Molly MacCarthy | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |