| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming home we saw Erasmus Wilson who had been reading "Hunger and Thirst" and expressed great value for it.' | Erasmus Wilson | unknown | Hunger and Thirst | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Miche... | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | [Penny Dreadfuls] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | 'The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | [didactic poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown Neale | History of the Puritans | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown Guillemin | [presumably astronomy text] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | unknown Nichols | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown Darwin | [article on 'Diseased Volition'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Notice des tableaux exposes au Musee d'Anvers | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown | Blue Beard | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alterat... | Thomas Carlyle | Unknown | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-... | Thomas Carlyle | Unknown | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"François" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.' | Joseph Conrad | unknown | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the ... | Joseph Conrad | unknown unknown | Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Poland | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'She [Mona Limerick, South American-born actor being considered for the leading female role in "Victory"] had excellen... | | unknown | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking ... | Edmund Blunden | unknown unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more... | Edmund Blunden | unknown unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scra... | Edmund Blunden | unknown unknown | unknown | Manuscript: Letter |