√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at... | William Wordsworth | Miguel de Cervantes Savedra | Don Quixote | 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 | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu:... | William Wordsworth | Miguel Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Miguel de Cervantes | probably Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciat... | Frederick Rogers | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on ... | Edward Trelawny | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794
'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a... | Elizabeth Smith | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixotte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in th... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how pe... | Samuel Pepys | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Persiles & Sigismunda' | Mary Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Los rabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia septentrional | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Don Quixote & Calderon' | Mary Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but h... | Virginia Woolf | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | W.H.(Bill) Tilman | Miguel (de) Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ... | Janet Case | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to l... | Alfred Tennyson | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die... | Samuel Johnson | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b... | Charles Causley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla... | John Ruskin | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Alfred Rawlings | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Helen Rawlings | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Katherine Evans | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Reginald Robson | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Mary Robson | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Charles Stansfield | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Don Quixote | Print: Book |