| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday 16 sept 1824. Had a visit from my friend Henderson of Milton who brought 'Don Juan' in his Pocket' [He] 'ad... | John Clare | Byron | Don Juan | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one co... | John Clare | | John Bull Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament' | John Clare | | The New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it today | John Clare | John Foxe | Foxes Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The rainy morning has kept me at home & I have amused myself heartily sitting under Waltons Sycamore tree hearing him... | John Clare | Izaak Walton | The Complete Angler | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read the September No of the London Mag: only 2 good articles in it-'Blakesmore in H-shire' by Elia & review of 'Goeth... | John Clare | | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great de... | John Clare | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see ... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | The Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see ... | John Clare | Thomas Chatterton | 'Poems of Chatterton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot. | John Clare | | Moore's Almanack | Print: almanack |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading ... | John Clare | William Collins Collins | 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading ... | John Clare | John Ogilvie | 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscio... | John Clare | | 'the Song Solomon' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'P... | John Clare | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consi... | John Clare | Thomas Gray | Letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Look'd over the "Human Heart" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making i... | John Clare | | The Human Heart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon' | John Clare | Josiah Conder | The Star in the East | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol]. | John Clare | John Hamilton Reynolds | The Garden of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love' | John Clare | | Epistle of St John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'this morning a play bill was thrown into my house with this pompous blunder on the face of it [...]. | John Clare | | [playbill] | Print: Handbill, playbill |
| 1800-1849 | 'At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was th... | John Clare | | Cinderella | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was th... | John Clare | | Jack and the Beanstalk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in mo... | John Clare | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R... | John Clare | | Cinderella | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R... | John Clare | | Little Red Riding Hood | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R... | John Clare | | Jack and the Beanstalk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Cinderella | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Little Red Riding Hood | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Jack and the Beanstalk | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Zig Zag | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Prince Cherry | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1800-1849 | John Clare, writing in 1821, on his attempt to use a school primer to help improve his written English:
'"Borrowing... | John Clare | | 'Spelling Book' (grammar) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"' | John Clare | Samuel Johnson | The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there' | John Clare | James Beresford | The Miseries of Human Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd over the magaze for amusement [...] the letter on mackadamizing is good - the review on Walladmoor is 30 pages ... | John Clare | Thomas de Quincey | The London Magazine: Review of Walladmor by Scott | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd over a new vol of provincial poems by a neighbouring poet Bantums "Excursions of Fancy" and poor fancys I find ... | John Clare | John Banton | Excursions of Fancy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hazlitts "lectures on the poets" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]' | John Clare | William Hazlitt | Lectures on the English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr ... | John Clare | William Hazlitt | A View of the English Stage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recievd the "London Magazine" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the ar... | John Clare | [n/a] | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr ... | John Clare | William Hazlitt | Lectures on the English Comic Writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Got a parcel from London "Eltons Brothers" "Allins Grammar" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines "internal evidences of... | John Clare | Thomas Erskine | Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd in the poems of Coleridge, Lamb and Loyde - Colridges monody on Chatterton is beautiful but his sonnets are not... | John Clare | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poems on Various Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read y... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays the... | John Clare | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays' | John Clare | Vicesimus Knox | Essays Moral and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an o... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Henry The Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times' | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the afternoon Erskines "Evidence of Revealed Religion" and find in it some of the best reasoning in favour of... | John Clare | Thomas Erskine | Remarks on the Internal Evidence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear ... | John Clare | William Hazlitt | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions wo... | John Clare | James Maddock | The Florist's Directory | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions wo... | John Clare | Elizabeth Kent | Flora Domestica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my jud... | John Clare | [n/a] | Solomon's Song | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read over the magazine [received from London on Sunday 7 Nov] the review of Lord Byrons conversations is rather enter... | John Clare | [n/a] | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'read in Southeys "Wesley"' | John Clare | Robert Southey | The life of Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and br... | John Clare | Robert Tannahill | Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertio... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laug... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" bette... | John Clare | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute d... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons (Winter) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful att... | John Clare | [n/a] | Literary Gazette | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and fla... | John Clare | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the "Magazine" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents "Sylvan Sket... | John Clare | Elizabeth Kent | Sylvan Sketches or a Companion to the Park | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [quotes from 4 separate stories] 'Stamford Mercury' '"A black birds nest with four young ones was found a few days ago... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the "Stamford Mercury" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for incl... | John Clare | Thomas Tusser | Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'News paper wonders - "There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and br... | John Clare | Robert Tannahill | Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved the April and May ma[ga]zine from London with a letter from Hessey and one from Vandyke [...] the magazine i... | John Clare | [n/a] | London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extracts from the "Stamford Mercury"' [copies two stories] | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'At a meeting of florists held at the Old Kings Head at Newark last week prizes were adjudged as follows' [quotes resu... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'News paper odditys [quotes article on salt mine in Poland] "Stamford Mercury"' | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays' | John Clare | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly ... | John Clare | Anonymous | Eighteen Sermons Intended to Establish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went to Milton saw a fine Edition of Leniuses Botany [...] saw also a beautiful book on insects with the plants they ... | John Clare | John Curtis | British Entomology ... Insects Found in Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Parish officers are modern savages as the following fact will testifye - Crowland Abbey "Certain surveyors have latel... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading over Mrs Barbaulds "Lessons for Childern" to my eldest child who is continually tearing me to rea... | John Clare | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Lessons for Children from Two to Three Years Old | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a letter & present of books from Lord Radstock containing Hannah Moores "Spirit of Prayer" - Bp Wilsons "Max... | John Clare | Richard Watson | An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Had a double Polanthus & single white Hepatica sent me from Stamford round which was rapped a curious prospectus of a... | John Clare | William Hone | Prospectus for 'The Every-Day Book' | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a parcel from Holbeach with a letter and the Scientific Receptacle from J. Savage - they have inserted my po... | John Clare | [n/a] | The Scientific Receptacle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Lingfield and Crowhurst Choir sung several select pieces from Handel in the cavity of a yew tree [continues for ... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of "Dooms day book" was found and had no time to copy out the account' | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'A salmon near ['near' in italics] 20 lbs weight ...' 'Stamford Mercury' | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The catholics have lost their bill once more [they] shoud when one beholds the following sacred humbugs [...] From "N... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following advertisement is from the "Observer" of Sunday May 22 1825. "Just published the speech of his Royal Hig... | John Clare | [n/a] | The Observer | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on "A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge" ["The Struggles of a ... | John Clare | unknown | The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved another parcel from Hessey [...] a present of "Aytons Essays" a young writer of great promise which was kill... | John Clare | Richard Ayton | Essays and Sketches of Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculia... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'lent Miss Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields "Hazlewood Hall & Remains" & Aytons "Essays" - Got a look at Gilleads of Spaldin... | John Clare | G Gilleade | Allworth Abbey; or Christianity Triumphant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a newspaper lye of the first order - "Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the ja... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved the 28 No of the "Everyday book" in which is inserted a poem of mine' | John Clare | William Hone | The Every-Day Book | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'More wonders from the "Mercury" "A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations ... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'a circumstance occurd which nearly stopd me from writing even for my own amusement borrowing a school book of a com... | John Clare | Daniel Fenning | The universal spelling-book: or, a new and easy guide to the English Language. Containing I Tables of Words [...] V Chronological Tables of the Succession of the Kings of England [...] | Print: Book |