| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.' | Virginia Woolf | William Congreve | Love for Love | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Louis 14 certainly never fell into the error Mrs Millamant cautioned her intended husband against in a clever wicked ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | William Congreve | Way of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard Johnson say that there was no Series of Verses in any English Tragedy so sublime & striking as the passa... | Samuel Johnson | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Old Batchelor, The | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Samuel Johnson | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Way of the World, The | Print: Book |