| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Charlotte, Anne, Emily Bronte | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be pa... | Leslie Stephen | Anne Bronte | Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Charlotte /Emily/ Anne Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 12 April 1849: 'I read Anne's letter [of 5 April] to you; it was touching enough ...' | Charlotte Bronte | Anne Bronte | letter to Ellen Nussey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Anne/Charlotte/Emily Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Anne Bronte | [Unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Anne Bronte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:]
'One day in the autumn of 1845 I... | Charlotte Bronte | Anne Bronte | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |