| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | '... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the jou... | Oscar Wilde | | Reise-Bilder | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the jou... | Oscar Wilde | | Pocket German dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I came up from Lincolnshire to town on Monday and went down that night to Magdalen to read my Catullus, but while lyi... | Oscar Wilde | Algernon Charles Swinburne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'That reminds me of Mallock?s New Republic in Belgravia; it is decidedly clever ? Jowett especially. If you have the k... | Oscar Wilde | William Hurrell Mallock | The New Republic, or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am now off to bed after reading a chapter of S. Thomas ? Kempis. I think half-an-hour's warping of the inner man da... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas ? Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mahaffy's book of Travels in Greece will soon be out. I have been correcting his proofs and like it immensely.' | Oscar Wilde | John Pentland Mahaffy | Rambles and Studies in Greece | Manuscript: Codex, publisher's proofs |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am deep in a review of Symonds's last book whenever I can get time.' | Oscar Wilde | John Addington Symonds | Studies of the Greek Poets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see the Nineteenth Century has a full list each month of its articles and contributors, which is put in the windows... | Oscar Wilde | | Nineteenth Century | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and... | Oscar Wilde | Euripides | Hercules Furens | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and... | Oscar Wilde | Euripides | Phoenissae | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'He discussed books with me and gave me my first volume of poetry, Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold, marking his favou... | Oscar Wilde | Matthew Arnold | Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | St Augustine | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | St Augustine | De Civitate Dei [The City of God] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | Blaise Pascal | Pensees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | Blaise Pascal | Provincial Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | Walter Pater | Studies in the History of the Renaissance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | T Mommsen | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | The Grammar of Ascent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | Apologia Pro Vita Sua | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | Two Essays on Miracles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | The Idea of a University | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | | Italian Grammar Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | | Italian Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | | [Anthology of all surviving Greek and Latin poetry and Drama] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | Lidell and Scott | Greek Lexicon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | Lewis and Short | Latin Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | | New Testament in Greek | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Henry Hart Milman | History of the Jews | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Frederick William Farrar | Life and Works of St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Complete Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Christopher Marlowe | Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Carlyle | Life of Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | John Keats | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Edmund Spenser | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Joseph Ernest Renan | Vie de Jesus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Joseph Ernest Renan | The Apostles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Leopold von Ranke | History of the Popes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Henry Newman | Critical and Historical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Charles Dickens | Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Walter Pater | Gaston de Latour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Henry Hart Milman | History of Latin Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | William Wordsworth | Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Matthew Arnold | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Dean Church | Dante and Other Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Percy | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Hallam | History of the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | John Dryden | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Robert Burns | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Alfred Tennyson | Morte d'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Jean Froissart | Chronicles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Henry Thomas Buckle | History of Civilisation | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | John Addington Symonds | Introduction to Dante | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | A.J. Butler | Companion to Dante | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Walter Pater | Miscellaneous Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Every morning, after I have cleaned my cell and polished my tins, I read a little of the Gospels, a dozen verses take... | Oscar Wilde | | Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well ... | Oscar Wilde | Elzabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding. [I have] grown fond of the ... | Oscar Wilde | John Keats | Sonnet in Blue | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the "golden books" of his childhood was J.W. Meinhold's 1847 Gothic historical novel "Sidonia the Sorceress". ... | Oscar Wilde | J.W. Meinhold | Sidonia the Sorceress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde praised "Melmoth" [the Wanderer] as a pioneering work of European Gothic fiction. He admitted, however, that it... | Oscar Wilde | Charles Maturin | Melmoth the Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde also excelled in French. His copy of Voltaire's "Histoire de Charles XII" bears the autograph and date "Oscar W... | Oscar Wilde | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Surviving copies of his classics books - which contain copious and meticulous annotations concerning syntax and gramm... | Oscar Wilde | | ['classics books'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers... | Oscar Wilde | Thucydides | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers... | Oscar Wilde | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers... | Oscar Wilde | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers... | Oscar Wilde | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wild... | Oscar Wilde | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly un... | Oscar Wilde | Benjamin Disraeli | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a boy [Wilde] "cared little for German literature, excepting only [Heinrich] Heine and Goethe."' | Oscar Wilde | Heinrich Heine | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri... | Oscar Wilde | Honore de Balzac | Lost Illusions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri... | Oscar Wilde | Honore de Balzac | A Harlot High and Low | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri... | Oscar Wilde | Stendhal | Scarlet and Black | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's "Roman History" which bears the date "November 1868" when Wild... | Oscar Wilde | Livy | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's copy of "The Bacchae of Euripides" edited by one of his Trinity tutors, R.Y. Tyrrell, has also survived. On t... | Oscar Wilde | Euripides | The Bacchae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The first volume of Symond's "Studies of the Greek Poets", issued in 1873, was "perpetually" in Wilde's "hands" at Tr... | Oscar Wilde | John Addington Symonds | Studies of the Greek Poets, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The annotations in Wilde's copy of J.E.T. Rodgers's edition of [Aristotle's] "Ethics", which is inscribed "Oscar Wild... | Oscar Wilde | Aristotle | Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Once again, Wilde assisted his mentor [Classical scholar John Pentland Mahaffy], this time by proof-reading "Rambles ... | Oscar Wilde | John Pentland Mahaffy | Rambles and Studies | Manuscript: proofs |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with ... | Oscar Wilde | Algernon Swinburne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with ... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Dialogues of Plato" became one of Wilde's golden books. He marked and annotated most of the dialogues, and many ... | Oscar Wilde | Plato | Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was during Michaelmas term of 1874 that Wilde first opened "Studies in the History of the Renaissance", a collecti... | Oscar Wilde | Walter Pater | Studies in the History of the Renaiisance | Print: Book |