√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | 'At age twelve, recalled ploughboy John Ward, "I devoured - not read, that's too tame an expression - Robinson Crusoe,... | John Ward | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Edward Gibbon | presumably Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Algernon Charles Swinburne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | | Clarion (literary pages) | Print: Serial / periodical |