| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Publius Virgilius Maro | Georgica Publii Virgilii Maronis Hexaglotta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Virgil | The Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done... | Samuel Richardson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a v... | Mary Berry | Virgil | Works | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horac... | Pupils at Mr Perry's school | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 2nd. Do a latin Excercise [sic]. Read a little of the [...] Enead [quotes Book I
line 33].'
... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland.
[...]
'Wednesday July 5th. [...] ... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit
& poetic excellence... | Elizabeth Barrett | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:--
'[...] When the refugee... | Edward Morgan Forster | Virgil | Aeneid (Book II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Whewell, who was [Tennyson's] tutor, he called "the lion-like man" and had for him a great respect. It is reported th... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations o... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aene... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | Aeneid VI | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867:
'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take... | Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel) | Virgil | Georgics I | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870:
'March 1st. Aldworth. Hallam read the 4th Aeneid with A.; they study Virgil to... | Alfred and Hallam Tennyson | Virgil | Aeneid IV | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | Georgics (II) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Virgil | Aeneid I | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Virgil | Eclogues I | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 24 May, 1796: 'The reliance that I can place on my own application ren... | Robert Southey | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are besides, Sir Adam Fergusson, Colin Mackenzie, James Hope, Dr. James Buchan, Claud Russell, and perhaps two ... | Walter Scott | Virgil | Aeneid | Unknown |
| 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 |
| 1700-1799 | From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay':
'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest dau... | Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther) | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |