√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Charles Darwin | | Print: Book |
| | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit... | Ben Tillett | Charles Darwin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Charles Darwin | [probably 'The Voyage of the Beagle'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Charles Darwin | The Descent of Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Charles Darwin | [all works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary ... | Ellen Wilkinson and father | Charles Darwin | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Charles Darwin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We began Darwin's work on "The Origin of Species" tonight. It seems not to be well written: though full of interestin... | George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes | Charles Darwin | Origin of Species, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'what I write for is to thank you again for sending me your brother's [Charles Darwin's] book. As for thanking | Harriet Martineau | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The conversation went on about Darwin's "Origin of species", and F. said to S. "tha doesn't favour a monkey, but tha ... | | Charles Darwin | Origin of species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I bought Darwin's last book in despair, for I knew I could generally read Darwin, but it was a failure.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Darwin | The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages: 59, 208, 211, 256. | Vernon Lee | Charles Darwin | The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My chief pleasure at the moment is Darwin's [italics] Voyage of the Beagle [end italics]... it is so fresh, so clear,... | Antonia White | Charles Darwin | Voyage of the Beagle, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading Darwin's [book] I wish I had loved objective things and looked at them when I was a child instead of feeding ... | Antonia White | Charles Darwin | Voyage of the Beagle, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Darwin | The Voyage of the Beagle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from Gissing's diary] Spent the evening in a troubled state of mind, occasionaly glancing at Darwin's "Origin of Spe... | George Gissing | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In November [1859] [Tennyson] was reading with intense interest an early copy of Darwin's Origin of Species, sent him... | Alfred Tennyson | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | Print: Book |