| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfi... | Mary Paley Marshall | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.'
| Algernon Methuen Marshall | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]: two ms notes, one opp. to: "Joannes Marshall scripsit hunc librum./ Incepi scribere hunc librum duodecim... | David Marshall | Andrew Birnie of Saline | A compend or abreviat of the most important ordinary securities of, and concerning. [sic] rights personal and real, redeemable and irredeemable; of common use in Scotland. Containing above an hundred different securities. Collected from the stiles of seve | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During the first half year I was at this school Mr Gibson got Moliere's plays for me in 10 vols., French and English,... | John Marsh | Jean-Baptiste Poquelin | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | John Campbell | The Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Rapin de Thoyras | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | John Dryden | Virgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Francois Fenelan | Les Aventures de Telemaque | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Alain Rene le Sage | Diable Boiteaux | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Virgil | Eneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ... | John Marsh | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ... | John Marsh | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England from the earliest times to the death of George II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?As during my confinement I amused myself with light reading, I now for the 1st time read the "Spiritual Quixote" (w?t... | John Marsh | Richard Graves | The spiritual Quixote: or the summer's ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?Being now became a constant attendant of the gent?n ringers once or twice a week, I ? began to aspire towards ringing... | John Marsh | members of the Society of London Scholars, J.D. and C.M. | Campanologia improved; or, the Art of ringing made easie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?On our coming home & Candles being brought in he took up a volume of "Clarissa Harlowe" (w?ch we happen?d then all to... | John Marsh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon becam... | John Marsh | Thomas Burnett | Theory of the Earth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday the 30th. I began reading for the 1st time Anson's "Voyage round the World", w'th which I was much amused ... | John Marsh | Richard Walter | Anson's Voyage round the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & M... | John Marsh | [n/a] | The Lounger | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflec... | John Marsh | [n/a] | Star, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Paine's "Rights of Man, or Answer to Burke" being now lately come out & much talked of, we got it in our society and ... | John Marsh | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on ... | John Marsh | James Ferguson | His Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Principles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on ... | John Marsh | John Bonnycastle | An introduction to astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, th... | John Marsh | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon, Mrs M & I walked to the quay hotel etc. where we met Mrs Hening of Chichester who was staying in lo... | | Miss Pilkington | Rosina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On this day I began reading Darwin's "Zoonomia", w'ch I had lately proposed in the Book Society.' | John Marsh | Erasmus Darwin | Zoonomia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On this day I finis'd Sullivan's "View of Nature" w'ch I had from the Library Society from w'ch & from the Book Socie... | John Marsh | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan | A View of nature, in Letters to a Traveller among the Alps | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the next day (Tuesday 31st) I went to Canterbury in the coach & on the same evening in the diligence to Dover wher... | John Marsh | C B E Naubert | Hermann of Unna | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | John Marsh | Ann Radcliffe | A Sicilian Romance | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | Elizabeth Marsh | William Jackson | Thirty letters on various subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | John Marsh | Carl Philipp Moritz | Travels of a German through England in 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | John Marsh | Carl Philipp Moritz | Travels of a German through England in 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ... | John Marsh | [unknown] | Life of Pope Sixtus V | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ... | John Marsh | [unknown] | Life of Pope Sixtus V | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfa... | John Marsh | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfa... | Elizabeth Marsh | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part o... | John Marsh | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part o... | John Marsh | William Godwin | Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '...immediately afterwards went in the diligence to Margate during which I finished the eccentric performance of "Cale... | John Marsh | William Godwin | Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse myself during this solitary journey I got Cumberland's "Henry" (then a new publication)... Wishing to reach ... | John Marsh | Richard Cumberland | Henry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse myself during this journey I brought the life of the eccentric Benvenuto Cellini to read in the chaise etc. ... | John Marsh | Benvenuto Cellini | The life of Benvenuto Cellini | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (... | John Marsh | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (... | John Marsh | George Keate | Sketches from nature, taken and coloured on a journey to Margate | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday the 30th we went in the coach with... Mr Norman, with whom we dined at the Bolt & Tun, where John & I spent... | John Marsh | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I on Friday the 16th went up in the coach to consult Mess'rs Bridges, Blake & other friends upon the matter, taking w... | John Marsh | Agnes Maria Bennett | The beggar girl and her benefactors | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I rode to Brighton on my way back, where I spent the evening and slept at the Old Ship, amusing myself besides my nov... | John Marsh | [unknown] | [a novel] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spent the evening and slept at the Old Tree, a very poor inn in which I was forced to sleep in a double bedded room... | John Marsh | Alain-Rene Le Sage | The history of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the Merry Bachelor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I on Tuesday the 8th went in the afternoon to Fareham by the telegraph, where I spent the evening & slept at the Red ... | John Marsh | [anon] | Maria or The Vicarage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having now occasion to go into Kent on business, I on Friday the 10th. went in the coach with Mr Chaldecott and 4 oth... | John Marsh | Isaac d'Israeli | Varien; or Sketches of the Times | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coac... | John Marsh | Charlotte Smith | The Young Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coac... | John Marsh | Jane West | The History of Ned Evans | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During my late visit to the Hammonds, they had acquainted me with the names of the principal characters amongst our f... | John Marsh | Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges | Arthur Fitz-Albani | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended... | John Marsh | [Anon] | The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell you | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very li... | John Marsh | [n/a] | [local newspaper] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when re... | John Marsh | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] was spending a couple of days at Mrs. Marsh's, when she asked me whether I would let her read t... | Mrs Marsh | Mrs Marsh | The Admiral's Daughter | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marsh came across a "Synopsis" and started reading an article on Bacon. At last he flung it aside and said, "It seems... | | | Synopsis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Royal Mandate deserves to be printed in letters of gold - how sweetly descriptive it is, the help to private devo... | Elizabeth Marshall | | The Royal Mandate | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading a sweet work lately, and earnestly recommend it to you my dear, pray let me have your opinion whe... | Elizabeth Marshall | Isaac Ambrose | Looking into Jesus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [unde... | Elizabeth Marshall | Hannah More | Practical piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [unde... | Elizabeth Marshall | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Mrs Marshall | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |