√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded som... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | a revolutionary Russian rag merchant | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D... | Chester Armstrong | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot... | James Murray | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David... | George Acorn | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeu... | Neville Cardus | Charles Dickens | [novels] | 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 | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | 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 | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the depressed steelworks town of Merthyr Tydfil between the world wars, schoolboys were baffled by A Christmas Car... | Welsh schoolboys | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshelves of an orphanage, which inc... | Janet Hitchman | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before deat... | William Makepeace Thackeray | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the l... | Philip Ballard | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In Scaffolding in the Sky (1938), C[harles]. H. Reilly remembered Saturday evenings when 'we all assembled round the f... | Charles H. Reilly | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | 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 | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1901 ... [Newman Flower] left his bed at four in the morning to travel from Croydon to watch the funeral processio... | Newman Flower | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favou... | Ernest Raymond | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... Oliver Twist (1838), the first Dickens that A. A. Milne was exposed to, at 9, gave him nightmares.' | Alan Alexander Milne | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my tea... | Andrew Lang | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The first imaginative work by an Englishman ... [Joseph Conrad] read was Nicholas Nickleby (1839).' | Joseph Conrad | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of hi... | Gordon Hewart | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and th... | Neville Cardus | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Lady Cynthia Asquith, daughter of the eleventh Earl [of Elcho] ... regularly reread her favourite [Dickens] stories ...' | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walte... | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57] ... guided by ... [their fath... | Thompson Family | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | 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 Dickens | David Copperfield | 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 Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my m... | Katherine Mansfield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in ... | Katherine Mansfield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son .... | Florence Murray | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in t... | Amelia Opie | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Charles Dickens | The Cricket on the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by... | | Thomas Dick | Christian Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by... | Phyllis Browne | Thomas Dick | Christian Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfi... | Mary Paley Marshall | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h... | anon | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 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 | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I am glad you like The Black Veil. I think that the title is a good one, because it is uncommon, and does not impair t... | John Macrone | Charles Dickens | The Black Veil | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cr... | John Drummond Erskine | Adam Dickson | An essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions, as connected with the luxury, currency, taxes, and national debt | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled t... | George Acorn | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a profe... | Arthur Harding | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a profe... | Arthur Harding | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": " ... some of ... [Dicke... | | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi... | John Masefield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss... | | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal... | Bernard Kops | Emily Dickinson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t... | Gwen Raverat | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Charles Dickens | Christmas Carol, A | 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... | Rudolph Lehmann | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t... | Thomas Catling | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w... | Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house | Charles Dickens | [works] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, presumably Dickens's fiction and journals |
| 1850-1899 | ?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the m... | William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times' | Charles Dickens | Little Dorritt | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Pris... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Charles Dickens | Household Words - "Perils of certain English Prisoners" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ... | George Eliot (pseud) | Charles Dickens | The Haunted Man | Print: Unknown, could have been book or serial |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to ... | Henry James | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | [book on Greek history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | Old Curiosity Shop, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Carter Dickson | Reader is Warned, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | Dick | Christian Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot [pseud] | Samuel Dickson | Fallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only social event she goes to is the Sunday afternoon tea run by her chapel. Again she has not made many friends ... | Molly | Charles Dickens | A tale of two cities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p... | Lawrence Durrell | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In future I hope that instead of saying as the fat boy in "Pickwick" does "I wants to make yer flesh creep," when I h... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When in years to come, I read "Dombey and Son", certain features of Mrs Pipchin did irresistibly remind me of my exce... | Edmund Gosse | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...but she procured for me a copy of "Pickwick", by which I was instantly and gloriously enslaved. My shouts of laugh... | Edmund Gosse | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Chimes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Wilson had no more patience than we had with Little Nell and the atrocious Trotty Veck. He shovelled the sentiment... | Walter Wilson | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Walter Wilson | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some old volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other... | Thomas A. Jackson | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected and bound into four volumes |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into volumes |
| 1900-1945 | [I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, a... | | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, Thackeray and Scott, but they're snappy-th... | | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I regret to see one or two errors in the first Volume, though I have the consolation of believing that none but pract... | Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens | The Black Veil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Reader, how is our family circle this evening? I will tell you. We are seated around a circular table. On my right is... | WL Cole | Dick | Christian philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 31st July.
?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'.
| Gerald Moore | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Charles Dickens | Sketches by Boz | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when s... | anon | Charles Dickens | [works] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly o... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | 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?] | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of Dickens, dear friend, I know nothing. About a year ago, from idle curiosity, I picked up The Old Curiosity Shop, ... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'. | Sydney Smith | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have been so used to these sort of impertinences, that I believe you will exuse me for saying how very much I am ... | Sydney Smith | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read aloud several pages of Martin Chuzzlewit & rather flattered myself I gave expression to the author's nicest s... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a little of Dombey & Son which I had lent me last evening by Mr Reed.' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for an hour or so & then turned into bed' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You may be interested to hear that the Miss Jaffrays are reading: having only eyes and not a 'pair of patent double m... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers Chapter 34 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837:
'I agree with you in thinking Pickwick admirable -- but I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles... | Benjamin Brierley | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 6 February 1843:
'Do you know that the royal Boz lives close to us -- three door... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843:
'The Christmas Carol strikes me much as it does you. I... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Dickens | Christmas Stories (2, unnamed) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 29 December 1844:
'I have read the "Chimes." I don't like it [...] Mr Di... | Mary Russell Mitford | Charles Dickens | The Chimes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844:
'The "Chimes" touched me very much! I thought it & sti... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | The Chimes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936:
'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost comple... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scriptu... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charles Dickens | Sketches by 'Boz' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scriptu... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charles Dickens | Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charles Dickens | Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co... | Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read "Pickwick Papers", pausing n... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sat up late reading of Mr. Jingle's artifices, until at last I began to speculate drowsily as to that gentleman's p... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | 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... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.' | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Charles Dickens | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction:... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfi... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like... | Mr Seymour | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read ΒΌ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday be... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Sk... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Dickens | All the Year Round [article] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850:
'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] O... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906:
'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I b... | Leonard Woolf | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In odd moments when I am at a loose end (about eleven minutes in the day) I read Emily Dickinson.' | Harold Nicolson | Emily Dickinson | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. ... | Mr Glasser | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916:
'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of t... | Frank Vicary | Dickinson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916:
'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing miss... | Frank Vicary | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | The Meaning of Good | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916:
'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing miss... | Frank Vicary | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Letters from John Chinaman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anyt... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also f... | Edward Housman | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother did her conscientious best to remedy the deficiencies of our literary education by reading Dickens aloud to... | Vera Brittain | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Read for the fist time June 1865. Macaulay took this volume more than once on our Easter trips. | George Otto Trevelyan | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | 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 | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a little rain before I got back to the Gaol, then I had dinner & read the Pickwick Papers till about nine o... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Charles Dickens | short fictions | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Charles Dickens | Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Bleak House" in evening' | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to the... | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read end of Charles Dickens' "American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.' | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | American Notes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.' | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | [ghost story] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible de... | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wild... | Oscar Wilde | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the f... | Hilary Spalding | John Dickson Carr | | 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 | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 18 July 1876:
'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, w... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommend... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa:
'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy.... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa:
'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy.... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | George Burrow | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Harry Emerson Fosdick | The Meaning of Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Harry Emerson Fosdick | The Manhood of the Master | Print: Book |