| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live ... | Thomas Burt | Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live ... | Thomas Burt | Frederick Douglass | Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'That would be in the year 1852, when I was fifteen. About the same time I read "The White Slave" and the autobiograph... | Thomas Burt | Richard Hildreth | The white slave, or memoirs of a fugitive | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of my aunts, living some two miles away, I discovered had a copy of Bunyan's immortal dream. The Bible and the pi... | Thomas Burt | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | Aeropagitica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | William Cowper | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | Alexander Pope | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B... | Thomas Burt | [n/a] | British Controversionalist | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B... | Thomas Burt | [n/a | Popular Educator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B... | Thomas Burt | [n/a] | Educational Course | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B... | Thomas Burt | | Historical educator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?[William Ritson] was a lover of books ? specially fond of poetry. He lent me about this time a paper-backed copy of B... | Thomas Burt | Phillip James Bailey | Festus: A poem | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Measure for measure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Love's Labour's Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I... | Thomas Burt | [n/a] | The Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of Englan... | Thomas Burt | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | Lucy Gray | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | We are seven | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Daffodils | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opening the "Newcastle Chronicle" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed "A Coalowner". From b... | Thomas Burt | [n/a] | Newcastle Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s... | Thomas Burt | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s... | Thomas Burt | John Stuart Mill | Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | John Ruskin | Crown of Wild Olive: Three lectures on work, traffic and war | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Another great book which I bought in those days was Gibbon?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (Bohn?s edition i... | Thomas Burt | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma... | Thomas Burt | Todd | Student's Manual | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma... | Thomas Burt | Channing | [volume of essays eg. on Milton, Napoleon and Fenelon] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?When about fourteen years old a comrade lent me a few stray numbers of the "London Journal", a highly spiced periodic... | Thomas Burt | [n/a] | London Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of Englan... | Thomas Burt | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | [essays] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila... | Thomas Burt | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Highland Girl | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Solitary Reaper | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma... | Thomas Burt | [unknown] | [theological magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |