√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The Prude'. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Anon | The Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | anon | Little Katey and Jolly Jim | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"' | George Eliot [pseud] | anon | Nibelungen Lied | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ... | George Eliot (pseud) | anon. | [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | In letter to Mary Berry of 17 August 1791, Horace Walpole transcribes anonymously-authored, sixteen-line verse, sent t... | Horace Walpole | anon | 'Attitudes -- A Sketch' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | anonymous | A Dialogue on Parliamentary Reform | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr E. brought "Fragments in the Manner of Sterne" 1797 from the library. The "Monthly Review" says it is the best imi... | Joseph Hunter | Anon | Fragments in the Manner of Sterne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wrote out of "Fragments" the piece upon war.' | Joseph Hunter | Anon | Fragments in the Manner of Sterne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Staunton's "Embassy to China" to the Library & brought "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution...". ... | Joseph Hunter | [Anon] | Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution". I have found that considerably more of it has appe... | Joseph Hunter | [Anon] | Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Procured a paper in form of an advertisement called "Long Faces" published Feb. 28th 1794 on the fast which was held ... | Joseph Hunter | Anon | Long Faces; Amusement for Starving Mechanics | Print: Advertisement |
| 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 |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been for some time amusing myself with the "Arabian Nights" Entertainments, to whose fascinating influence I a... | Thomas Green | Anonymous | Arabian Nights Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819:
'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim an... | Arabella Moulton-Barrett | anon | Whim and Contradiction: A Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, md-August 1839:
'I was too tired upon my return from the [italics]voyage[end... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Two Old Men's Tales: The Deformed, and The Admiral's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ... | Virginia Woolf | anon | mock epitaph for Virginia Woolf | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed − a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Anon [Apprently the father of the dead child] | [memorial on grave] | Manuscript: Inscription carved on school slate. |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at ... | Alfred Tennyson | anon | 12-canto poem on battle of Waterloo | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847:
'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, whic... | John Wilson Croker | anon | 'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Harriet Grote's diary (1868):
'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken do... | George Grote | anon ('ancient writers') | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1759:]
'The book you enquire after is "The History of some of th... | Catherine Talbot and family | anon | The Histories of some of the Penitents in the Magadalen House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ... | T. C. Elliott | anon | Arden of Faversham | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ... | Sylvanus Reynolds | anon | Arden of Faversham | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ... | George Burrow | anon | Arden of Faversham | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Dorothy Brain | Anon | [old Berkshire ballad on a lad who died from eating custard] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Dorothy Brain | Anon | The lay of the hunted pig | Unknown |