| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "On 27 Feb. 1799, W[ordsworth] told [S. T.] C[oleridge] that 'My internal prejudge[ments con]cerning Wieland and Goeth... | William Wordsworth | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. | Mary Smith | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'I heard Mr. Lewis translate verbally some scenes of Goethe's Faust ... last Su... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 22 July 1823, thanking him for 'lines' forwarded by Charles Sterling and received... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Johann von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciat... | Frederick Rogers | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten... | William Darwin | Johannn Wolfgang von Goethe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read a... | George Eliot (pseud) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Wahlverwandtschaften | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably] | Egmont | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first r... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gross Cophta | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, rea... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Der Burgergeneral | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Italianische Reise.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italianische Reise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italianische Reise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Hermann and Dorothea | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [discourse on Shakespeare] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [on Spinoza] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud He... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Maxims, in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | West-Ostliche Divan | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Romische Elegien | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Venetian Epigrams | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | "Zuegnung", "Gedichte", Ballads | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Reineke Fuchs"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe | Reineke Fuchs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and G... | Felicia Hemans | Johan Wolfgang Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Hermann and Dorothea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'. | Somerset Maugham | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg' | Somerset Maugham | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on German studies continued during stay in Kent: 'There I refreshed myself among pretty scenery, fre... | Harriet Martineau | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ... | Jem Parsons | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of lit... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Lieden des jungen Werthers | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazz... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] May 29th. [...] Read the 1st Letter in Leiden von Werther.'
[Also records reading this text on 31 May 18... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Leiden des jungen Werther | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct [...] 17th. [...] Begin Faust by Goethe [goes on to quote part i lines 590-593 and
lines 602-605 from... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday March 9th. [...] Translate [...] a little of the life of Goethe.'
[readings/translation/copying of transl... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] I unpack and arrange my things [on arrival at employers' country
property and read ... | Claire Clairmont | Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]b... | Elizabeth Barrett | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gotz von Berlichingen mit der eisenen Hand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]b... | Elizabeth Barrett | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Egmont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Stella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Clavigo, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I a... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Egmont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jack tells me you are reading Meister: this surprises me; if I did not recollect your love for me, I shoudl not be ab... | Margaret A. Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Appre... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or Wanderjahre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister, the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that ... | Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execut... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Meister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume) | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation... | Charlotte Bury | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [possibly] Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and del... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | private letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice to Alfred Tennyson, 27 November 1833:
'I have read Wilhelm Meister for the first time,... | The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] "copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just fin... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Helena | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after being sent an 'Album' belonging to Queen Victoria, with the ... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 'Edel sei der Mensch' | Manuscript: Unknown, Written by Prince Albert into Album belonging to Queen Victoria. |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetr... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 'Nachgefuhl' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetr... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 'Der Abschied' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetr... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 'An den Mond' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetr... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | poem on seeing Schiller's skull | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'I need not tell you with what pleasure my f... | Robert Southey | Johann Wilhelm von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate
Goethe's Faust:
'Think... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finish... | Charles Stansfield | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Briefechsel, a second time, with no little satisfaction; and even today am sending off an Essay on Sc... | Thomas Carlyle | Schiller & Goethe | Correspondence | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Mary Pollard | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Mary E. Robson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Janet Rawlings | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | George Burrow | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gefunden | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Victor Alexander | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | 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 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |