√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.' | Jane Austen | James Boswell | Tour to the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | James Boswell | Tour of the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from... | Richard Pyke | James Boswell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jack Common recalled that his mother brought him a secondhand and severely abridged "Life of Johnson" for 1d., and he... | Jack Common | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 30 August 1800: 'I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the ev... | Anne Lister | James Boswell | The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been John... | Leslie Stephen | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear... | Ellen Weeton | James Boswell | The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson which is very entertaining; I never saw Johnson's Journey to the Hebrid... | Robert Sharp | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recd a parcel from William last night. I was at the time reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, but it was immediately la... | Robert Sharp | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as wel... | James Leigh Hunt | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "Fulke Greville's copy of Boswell [Life of Johnson] stands out among individual copies annotated by readers who had kn... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses annotations of unidentified male reader in 1793 copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson; this reader... | Mr L. | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of te... | John Gibson Lockhart | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likel... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Ody... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | James Boswell | probably Life of Johnson | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused "Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson"; which I still consider to be a... | Thomas Carter | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you Tom Davis's Life of David Garrick? I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, and should like to peruse ... | | Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... he [ie George III] paid attention when books were read to him, and asked for excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Jo... | King George III | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading the "Life of Dr. Johnson", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was about noon, and the officers had all gone home to their dinners, when, as I sat on my stool munching my loaf a... | | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Pursued Boswell's "life of Johnson"....' | Thomas Green | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...' | Thomas Green | James Boswell | The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it ... | Arnold Bennett | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | 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 w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [James] Boswell | Life of [Samuel] Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 23rd. [...] Read Boswell's Life of Johnson.'
[records of reading this text also appear in entries for ... | Claire Clairmont | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Boswell's life of Johnson' | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - finish Life of Johnson' | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832:
'Mr Croker has lately published an edition of Boswell's Life o... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Boswell I am sure ten times - & hope to read it many more it is the most amusing book in the world, besid... | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Anna Grosvenor | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's concept... | Vita Sackville-West | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".' | Frank Smythe | James Boswell | A Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as... | James Boswell | James Boswell | [account given to him by Mrs Williams] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He kept the greater part of mine [letters] very carefully; and a short time before his death was attentive enough to ... | James Boswell | James Boswell | [letter to Johnson from Corsica] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop... | John Wilkes | James Boswell | [notes of conversation between Wilkes and Dr Johnson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th... | Alexander Dick | James Boswell | An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island, & Memoirs of Pascal Paoli | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]'
| Robert Louis Stevenson | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'I have just advanced so far towards recovery as to read a pamphlet; and you may rea... | Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation | |
| 1800-1849 | The Earl of Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, in response to a query regarding quotation from Homer by Thucydides, 1 Sep... | Earl of Aberdeen | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham (1850-51):
'And so you are reading my Bozzy'. | Henry Brougham | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'In the following lines, by that pious and most excellent of... | | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803:
'I have at present a [italics]John... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803:
'I have at present a [italics]John... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831):
'I hav... | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Alfred Rawlings | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Ernest E. Unwin | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Reginald Robson | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Charles Evans | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |