| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | "In the early 1870s Browning frequently dined at the Chelsea home of the newly married Sir Charles Dilke. In 1872 he ... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Red Cotton Nightcap Country | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "One of my latest sensations was going one day to Lady Airlie's to hear Bro... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834:
'I heard of poor Drounieau's case in t... | Robert Browning | Gustave Drounieau | Resignee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834:
'Madame Dudevant has accomplished some... | Robert Browning | George Sand | Lelia (chapter VIII) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amadee de Ripert-Monclar, 30 July 1835:
'I have you to thank [...] for some very cl... | Robert Browning | Agricole Fortia d'Urban | works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rhone et les Alpes par Annibal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to William Charles Macready, January 1837:
'I have taken a cursory look at your [italics]addissions... | Robert Browning | William Charles Macready | annotations to Robert Browning, Strafford | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839:
'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one... | Robert Browning | Honore de Balzac | Beatrix ou les Amours Forces | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, 16 September 1839:
'Wish "Paracelsus" luck, by the way, at the Great St... | Robert Browning | | racing programme | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Rachel Talfourd, c.1842:
'Out of certain projects of calling personally and saying my thankful s... | Robert Browning | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps, in August and September 1841 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842:
'I send this with Tennyson's new vol -- The alterations are insane.... | Robert Browning | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842:
'Sir L. Bulwer has just published a set of sing-songs -- I read two... | Robert Browning | Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Eva; the Ill-omened Marriage, and Other Tales and Poems (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Thomas Powell, c.October 1842:
'I am highly obliged to you [...] for the two volumes of verse no... | Robert Browning | Thomas Powell | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 December 1842:
'The only novelty we have had in books as yet, has been Macaula... | Robert Browning | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 5 March 1843:
'Here we are sound asleep. Bulwer's new Novel, "The Last of the Ba... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | The Last of the Barons (extract) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning, Sr to Thomas Powell, 11 March 1843:
'I hope the enclosed may be acceptable as curiosities. They we... | Robert Browning, Sr | Robert Browning, Jr | 'On Bonaparte' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Christopher Dowson, Jr., 10 March 1844:
'Yesterday I read my play to [Charles Kean] and his char... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Colombe's Birthday | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843:
'Browning & Sister[,] Dowson & wife dined with us a week back, ... | Robert Browning | Alfred Domett | letter to Robert Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October
1846, on receiving her fat... | Robert Browning | Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847:
'Robert is a warm admirer of Balzac & has read... | Robert Browning | Honore de Balzac | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 31 March 1847:
'Thank you for the dear welcome letters [..... | Robert Browning | Hugh Stuart Boyd | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 10 January 1845:
'I love your verses with all my heart, de... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 23 February 1845: 'Arnould is a happiness to see and know [...] I send, with this [l... | Robert Browning | Joseph Arnould | 'Rabelais and His Times' (review of various works on Rabelais) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845:
'You ask me questions, "if I like novels," [... | Robert Browning | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845:
'That book you like so, the Danish novel, mu... | Robert Browning | Hans Christian Andersen | The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, ?18 July 1845:
'I confess to you that [...] as soon as I read your "Essay on ... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 14 June 1845:
'When I ask my wise self what I really do rem... | Robert Browning | Alfred Tennyson | Timbuctoo | |
| 1800-1849 | 'R[obert] B[rowning] wrote seven and a half pages of comments about E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett]'s revised translat... | Robert Browning | Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and ... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Alice, or The Mysteries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and ... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Ernest Maltravers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'There lies Consuelo -- done with!
'I sh... | Robert Browning | George Sand | Consuelo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 11 September 1845:
'Mrs Shelley found Italy for the first t... | Robert Browning | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 1843 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 November 1845:
'Since I wrote what is above, I have been reading [...] tha... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | 'Past and Future' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 December 1845:
'Yesterday I was reading the "Purgatorio" and the first spe... | Robert Browning | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846:
'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that ... | Robert Browning | Richard Hengist Horne | Ballad Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846:
'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that ... | Robert Browning | Richard Hengist Horne | 'The Merrie Devil of Edmonton' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846:
'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that ... | Robert Browning | Richard Hengist Horne | 'Stanzas to a Ruined Windmill' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850:
'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much p... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | The Caxtons. A Family Picture | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850:
'I complain of Florence for the want of books --... | Robert Browning | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?3 December, 1850: 'I send the first volume of Pendennis. We have one more ... | Robert Browning | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850:
'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I... | Robert Browning | John Westland Marston | Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 12 January 1851:
'Now I am going to speak to you a... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | sonnets ['from the Portugese'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864:
'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now... | Robert Browning | Alfred Tennyson | Enoch Arden | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864:
'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now... | Robert Browning | Alfred Tennyson | The Northern Farmer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 21 December 1876:
'True thanks again, this time for the best of Christmas prese... | Robert Browning | Alfred Tennyson | Harold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868):
'Nov. 21st. Browning read his Preface to us last night, f... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Preface, The Ring and the Book | Unknown |