| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's ... | V.W. Garratt | Plato | Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 14th. [...] Read S--'s translation of Plato's Symposium.' | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 15th. [...] Read Plato's Symposium.' | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 16 -- Finish the Symposium of Plato'. | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate
Demosthenes. Read Saggio Isto... | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and
Memoirs of Marmontel.' | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Phaedon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 December 1829:
'I have been reading over again Plato's Phaedon [...] The ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Phaedon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833:
'Just at this moment I am busy with Plato, trying to fi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Parmenides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rhone et les Alpes par Annibal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843:
'Did I tell you that I have been reading through an M.S. tra... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Gorgias | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | '[Roger] Ascham (1515-68) [...] visited the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) in 1550 and
describes in [italics]The... | Lady Jane Grey | Plato | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS dates of reading: "Feb 13 1907 Welcombe"; "Nov 10 1909 Rome (Read in one day)"; "June 1915 Welcombe"; "October... | George Otto Trevelyan | Plato | Dialogues | |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'Jan.15th. [1889] My father asked Jowett whether his faith... | Benjamin Jowett | Plato | Thaetetus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiae... | Alfred Tennyson | Plato | The Vision of Er | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiae... | Hallam Tennyson | Plato | Republic (Book II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | Plato | Timaeus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | Plato | Parmenides | 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 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 |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |