| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I took [books] to the library and brought Aikin's "Description of the Country between 30 and 40 miles around Manchest... | Joseph Hunter | John Aikin | A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin ... | Joseph Hunter | John Aikin | A Description of the country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin ... | Joseph Hunter | John Aikin | Evenings at home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We got the "Monthly Magazine" from Miss Haynes who takes it in. Mr E. says it is the best published. I drew a copy o... | Joseph Hunter | John Aikin | A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention ... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in "Evenings at Home" of the Transmigra... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error ... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Half a page in praise of Evenings, beginning:] 'No one can be so injudicious, or so unjust, as to class the excellent... | Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathet... | [ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Several children, who were reading "Evenings at Home", observed that in the story of Juliet and the fairy order...' [... | [ a group of children known to Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'S----was reading in "Evenings at Home" the story of "A Friend in need is a Friend Indeed" ...[when he commented on th... | | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is a slight attempt at the kind of composition we mean, in a little trial in "Evenings at Home"; and we have se... | [children known to Maria Edgeworth] | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter from Maria Edgeworth to A.L.Barbauld, dated 26/2/1806, tells about this younger brother, who has just left the ... | C.S. Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'It would be well if both tales and books werwe always calculated to ... In the "Evenings at Home", or "Juvenile Budge... | Elizabeth Hamilton | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear boys, when I was your age, there were no such children's books as ther are now...Now, among those very stupid... | Charles Kingsley | John Aikin | Evenings at home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, und... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [John?] Aikin | Essay on the use of natural history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday [...] Decbr. 5th. [...] read Evenings at Home with John.'
[also records reading this text on 6 December 1825]. | Claire Clairmont | John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld | Evenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget Opened | Print: Book |