√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 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 | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | Emily Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi... | Leslie Stephen | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Anne Bronte, diary paper for 31 July 1845 'Emily is engeaged [sic] in writing the Emperor Julius's life She has read ... | Emily Bronte | Emily Bronte | Life of the Emperor Julius (? Gondal story) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally ... | Charlotte Bronte | Emily Bronte | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, September 1848: ' ... of ["Ellis Bell's" poetry's] merit I am deeply convi... | Charlotte Bronte | Emily Bronte | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 28 September 1850, on preparing to write preface to new edition of "Wuther... | Charlotte Bronte | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Unknown |
| 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 | '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. ... | Marjory Todd | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today I finished "Wuthering Heights" and began "Villette". I must try and get a set of the Bronte books as soon as I... | Hilary Spalding | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Emily Bronte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Emily Bronte | | 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?] | Emily Bronte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . An... | Arnold Bennett | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small ... | Hilary Spalding | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | 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 | Emily Bronte | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |