| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea... | questionaire respondent | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Louisa May Alcott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)' | Constance Smedley | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": ... | Mary Lakeman | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": ... | Mary Lakeman | Louisa May Alcott | Good Wives | Print: Book |
| | Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": "[Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alco... | Melvyn Bragg | Louisa May Alcott | Jo's Boys | Print: Book |
| | Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": "[Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alco... | Melvyn Bragg | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From chapter entitled 'Conversations' in Maria Weston Chapman's 'Memorials' of Harriet Martineau: 'Reading an article ... | Harriet Martineau | Louisa May Alcott | Transcendental Wild Oats (article) | Print: Unknown |