√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun... | John Johnson | Alfred Marshall | Principles of Economics | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary r... | Wordsworth Family | Bishop Joseph Hall | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: 'Darkish when we reached home [from walk] ... Willia... | William Wordsworth | Bishop Joseph Hall | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to th... | Anne Lister | Colonel Francis Hall | Travels in France in 1818 | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Alfred Marshall | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college... | Margaret Wharton | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | 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 | Alfred Marshall | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | Alfred Marshall | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to the Library; read Bramhall against Hobbes' | John Byrom | John Bramhall | Castigation of Mr Hobbes [with the appendix]The Ca | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... [Edmond] Halley's paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge was finally printed in the Philosophical Transactio... | Royal Society | Edmond Halley | paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's (disapproving) reading of Edmond Halley, Catalogus Stellarum Australium. | John Flamsteed | Edmond Halley | Catalogus Stellarum Australium, sive Supplementum Catalogi Tychonici exhibens longitudines et latitudines stellarum fixarum ... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal marks (x, }, |) plus occasional comments, either single words or short notes eg: p. 74 after th... | George Pitts | James Hall | Travels in Scotland, by an unusual route: with a trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides: containing hints and improvements in agriculture and commerce... | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henry Hallam | [perhaps The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the Evening we had Mrs. Lambert, who brought us a Tale, called Edwy & Edilda by the sentimental Clergyman Mr. Whal... | Frances Burney | Whalley | Edwy and Edilda: A Tale in Five Parts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Hallam's Middle Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Henry Hallam | The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | Mary Berry | Wraxhall | work on period of Henry III (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | Mary Berry | Wraxhall | work on period of Henry III (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Hallen | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 December 1837: 'Read some of Hall in afternoon, till time to dress for ball.' | Harriet Martineau | Hall | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Hall | An Humble Motion to the Parliament of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"' | John Fortescue Aland | Nathaniel Marshall | A defence of our constitution in church and state | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so muc... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Travels in North America 1827-8 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and u... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Travels in North America 1827-8 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | Francis Hall | Journal of Travels in the United States of North America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it ... | Sydney Smith | Arthur Hallam | History Of Europe During The Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it w... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexico | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read voyage to Corea' | Mary Shelley | Basil Hall | Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island; with an appendix... and a vocabulary of the Loo Choo language by H.I. Clifford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Mrs Hall's book beautiful, but am not in love with her dedicatory letter [to Mary Russell Mitford]. It is mea... | Barbara Hofland | Mrs S.C. Hall | Sketches of Irish Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 21 April 1843:
'Mrs S. C. Hall is an agreeable & graceful writer, & I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mrs Samuel Carter Hall | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Hallam | Constitutional History of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq... | George Crabbe | William Marshall | Rural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Julian Hall | Senior Commoner, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Libe... | Samuel Johnson | John Bramhall | Discourse of Liberty and Necessity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Henry Hallam | 'History' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very... | James Boswell | William Marshall | Minutes of Agriculture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aubrey De Vere, on how he 'first made acquaintance with Alfred Tennyson's poetry':
'Lord Houghton, then Richard Mon... | Aubrey De Vere | Arthur Hallam | Essay on Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | '[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce... | Isaac Archer | Joseph Hall | The Art of Divine Meditation | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'September 2. I had bin grievously and causlessly defamed by one from whom I deserved it not; this day he came to quar... | Isaac Archer | Bishop Hall | Sermon on Ephesians 4:30 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 28 June 1796: 'THE story of the Mysterious Mother is of an earli... | Robert Southey | Joseph Hall | Resolutions and Decisions of divers Practical Cases of Conscience, in continual Use amongst Men | 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 | Hallam | History of the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans... | Charles Stansfield | Harold Fielding Hall | Soul of a People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.' [The Well o... | Arnold Bennett | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | On the conclusion of the 'Well of Loneliness' case, I propose to devote an article to it in the Evening Standard. I ... | Arnold Bennett | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824):
'What a pretty book C... | Harriet Countess Granville | Basil Hall | Journal in South America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824):
'What a pretty book C... | Harriet Countess Granville | Basil Hall | Journal in South America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 13 April 1831:
'My nap [same afternoon] was a very short one and was agreeably replaced by Basil Hall's ... | Walter Scott | Captain Basil Hall | Fragments of Voyages and Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Lockhart to John Murray, 24 September 1839:
'Morritt has just finished "Hallam's Literature." He is in raptures ... | | Hallam | 'Literature' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'November brought a peculiar police-court case, which made literary history, after Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well o... | Vera Brittain | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |