| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ... | Margaret Oliphant | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at... | William Wordsworth | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
William Masters: "some time on the 26th of December, we received a ... | William Masters | Sir John Fielding | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26t... | John Brooks | Sir John Fielding | | Print: Handbill |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying... | | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Henry Fielding | | 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 | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 7 November 1800: 'A cold rainy morning ... I working and reading Amelia.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 25 November 1800: 'Very ill ... better in the Evening -- read Tom Jones... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | 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 | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel... | Leslie Stephen | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fi... | Charles Maturin | Henry Fielding | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What ... | Beryl Lee Booker | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | Henry Fielding | | 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 | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be... | Harriet Grove | Henry Fielding | Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | various works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the History of Florence a... | Sarah Scott | Sarah Fielding | David Simple | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Sarah Fielding | many works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You guess that I have not read "Amelia". Indeed I have read but the first volume. I had intended to go through with i... | Samuel Richardson | Henry Fielding | Amelia (1st vol.) | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them... | Samuel Richardson | Sarah Fielding | Familiar Letters Between the Principle Characters in David Simple | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Fielding | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Fielding | The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Fielding | The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great | 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 | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 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 | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I was seized last night with a violent pain in my head (fortunately, just as I had concluded my month?s work), and wa... | Charles Dickens | Henry Fielding | The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...' | Thomas Green | Henry Fielding | The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at th... | Thomas Green | Henry Fielding | The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than ... | Thomas Green | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing']
| Arnold Bennett | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'as soon as he was gone I finished Cigar read a few Pages of "Tom Jones" & went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Henry Fielding | History of Tom Jones, a foundling, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoo... | Vita Sackville-West | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom ... | John Buchan | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Henry Fielding | History of Tom Jones, A Foundling | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | James Boswell | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | James Boswell | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told us, he read Fielding's "Amelia" through without stopping'. | Samuel Johnson | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinar... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Sarah Fielding | 'To Miss Salusbury' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott adapts one line from Henry Fielding's 'Tom Thumb the Great'. | Walter Scott | Henry Fielding | Tom Thumb the Great | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla... | John Ruskin | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748:
'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fieldi... | J[?ane] Collier | Sarah Fielding | The Governess | Print: Unknown, In proof |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751:
'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age... | Catherine Talbot | Fielding | [?The] Patriot | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752:
'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amus... | Martin Benson | Henry Fielding | Amelia (volumes 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 March 1751:
'How to account for Miss Mulso's unmerciful severity to Amelia... | Hester Mulso | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752:
'At last we have begun Amelia, it is very entertaining. I do l... | Catherine Talbot and family. | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local country... | Catherine Talbot and family | Sarah Fielding | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754:
'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my w... | Elizabeth Carter | Sarah Fielding | The Cry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754:
'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much ou... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | The Cry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | Henry Fielding | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:]
'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 May 1755:]
'I have lately read over with much indignation Fielding's last ... | Thomas Edwards | Henry Fielding | Voyage to Lisbon | Print: Book |