| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair... | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Lorna Doone" and loved it. Must try to get it next hols.' | Hilary Spalding | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading "King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse", which is really glorious.' | Hilary Spalding | Sister Black | King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ... | John Marsh | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [possibly] William Blackstone | [Commentaries on the laws of England?] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Search in Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving [I] think, to be more tal... | William Windham | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the laws of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud' | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | John Black (trans.) | Memoirs of Goldoni (the celebrated Italian Dramatist) written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Blackwell | Memoirs of the Court of Augustus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831:
'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Bla... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sir William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked of Mr. Blacklock's poetry, so far as it was descriptive of visible objects; and observed, that "as its auth... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Blacklock | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Arthur Hallam | Sir William Blackstone | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Black | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | R. D. Blackmore | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'Blackstone & I agree better than perhaps you imagine. true it is ... | Robert Southey | Sir William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have now gone thro Blackstone often & attentively, s... | Robert Southey | Sir William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I get "Lorna Doone". It is a good book so far.' | Thomas Kitching | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Joseph Blacket | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Blacket | poetry | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Algernon Blackwood | Garden of Survival, The | Print: Book |