| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Carlyle, like all the rest of the world. He has been writing a sort of pamphlet on the state of E... | Emma Darwin | Thomas Carlyle | Chartism | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Lanfrey's memoirs of Napoleon I. It is refreshing to read a Frenchman's book who cares nothing fo... | Emma Darwin | Pierre Lanfrey | History of Napoleon I | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Letter]
'I am taking to some of the St Beuve ''Causeries'', and find them very pleasant, especially anything about t... | Emma Darwin | Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve | Causeries du lundi (Monday Chats) | Print: Book, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | [Letter]
'I make C. Buxton's book quite my Bible at present. He hits so many small nails on the head that suit my fee... | Emma Darwin | Charles Buxton | Notes of Thought | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Letter]
'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so re... | Emma Darwin | William Ewart Gladstone | England's Mission | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [Letter]
'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so re... | Emma Darwin | William Rathbone Greg | Is popular judgement in politics more just than that of the higher classes? | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading a short 'Etude' of Scherer on Goethe, in which I so heartily agree that I enjoy it.' | Emma Darwin | Wilhelm Scherer | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I bought for 3s. a novel by Mrs Oliphant, ''An English Squire'', with the same irritable young man one knows so well.... | Emma Darwin | Margaret Oliphant | Squire Arden? | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that int... | Emma Darwin | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''I have been reading Waldstein's ''Ruskin''. The admiring part I did not feel up to, but the chapter on social questi... | Emma Darwin | Charles Waldstein | The Work of John Ruskin: Its influence on Modern Thought and Life. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such c... | Emma Darwin | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Balfour. Of course I don't do the book justice, but the last two or three pages seem to me very incon... | Emma Darwin | A. J. Balfour | The Foundations of Belief | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found Voltaire's ''Louis XIV. very pleasant and short, leaving out all the battles. Voltaire seems so impresse... | Emma Darwin | Voltaire | The Age of Lewis XIV | Print: Book |