√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | "As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend, 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwa... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Bryan Edwards | The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads a... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Bryan Edwards | The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'. | Mary Godwin | Bryan Edwards | The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bryan Edwards's account of the West Indies'. | Mary Godwin | Bryan Edwards | The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Bryan Edwards all evening' | Mary Godwin | Bryan Edwards | he history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |