√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | Wu notes extracts from vol 1 of Volney, "Travels Through Syria and Egypt", in Dove Cottage MS 28.
| Wordsworth Family | Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de Volney | Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785 | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the... | Maria Edgeworth | Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse) | Mademoiselle de Clermont | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | Comtesse de Segur | Les Petites Filles Mod?les | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini... | George Eliot (pseud) | Auguste Comte | Catechism Of Positive Religion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte on the Middle Ages' | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [on the Middle Ages] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu | Contes populaires des anciens Bretons | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Auguste Comte | Syst?me de politique positive | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [correspondence with Valat] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear prepara... | Harriet Martineau | Auguste Comte | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the 8th of May [1851], I [Harriet Martineau] went for a fortnight to stay with some friends, between whom and myse... | anon | Auguste Comte | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'My dear Caroline, I am very glad to have an opportunity of answering your agreable [sic] little Letter. You seem to ... | Jane Austen | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St Albin Comtesse de Genlis | Olympe et Theophile | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'. | Virginia Woolf | Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Auguste Comte | Cours de Philosophie Positive | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Translation of Madame la Countess de Genlis invocation at t... | | Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin Comtesse de Genlis | Memoirs of the Countess of Genlis, Written by Herself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40):
'Have you read Comte's "Traite de Philosophie Positive," of whi... | George Grote | Comte | Traite de Philosophie Positive (vol. 3) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'll show you where I got the hint for it [his story "The Warriors' Soul"] in Philippe de Ségur. There's a hint for ... | Joseph Conrad | Philippe-Paule Ségur (Comte de) | Un Aide de Camp de Napoléon (de 1800 à 1812 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was in Paris during the elections for the Chamber, when a triumphant majority was returned, as of course you know, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmé-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon, comte de | | Print: Poster |