| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought from the Library Gifford's "Address to the loyal Association". [In margin:"A Pamphlet"] he says that he has ... | Joseph Hunter | John Gifford | A Short Address to the Members of the Loyal Association | |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playfords "Introduction to Mus... | Samuel Pepys | John Playford | A brief introduction to the skill of musick | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.'
Pepys records the follo... | Samuel Pepys | John Playford | Catch that catch can, or The musical companion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836:
'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, wi... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Ford | plays (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | John Ford | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | John Ford | Broken Heart, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | John Ford | Broken Heart, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | John Ford | Lover's Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ... | Virginia Woolf | John Ford | The Lover's Melancholy | Print: Book |