√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ...... | Ada Cambridge | William Dean Howells | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea... | Gerald Massey | Howitt | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article." | Henry James | William Dean Howells | "A Pedestrian Tour" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I heard from my mother a day or two since that your book is having... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Chance Acquaintance (fifth part) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 September 1873, regarding Howells's A Chance Acquaintance (just published): "I ... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Chance Acquaintance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 19 or 26 March 1875: "I read this morning your notice of A Passionate Pilgrim ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | review of Henry James, A Passionate Pilgrim | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 7 December 1886: "The last thing I did before leaving London three days and a half... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Minister's Charge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 5 October 1887 (in letter begun 1 October 1887): "I hadn't seen ... [W. D. Howells's] 't... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 2 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: "The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my l... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Lady of the Aroostook | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880: "I read your current novel with pleasure, but I don't think the su... | Henry James | Wiliam Dean Howells | The Undiscovered Country | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 20 July 1880; "I am much obliged to you for the pretty volume of the Undiscovered,... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Undiscovered Country | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 4 October 1881, on Howells's new story, Dr Breen's Practice: "I won't forego the ... | Henry James | Wiliam Dean Howells | Dr. Breen's Practice | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | Ragged Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | Their Silver Wedding Journey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | 'Pursuit of the Piano' (short story) | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 10 August 1901: 'Ever since receiving and reading your elegant volume of short ta... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Pair of Patient Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" d... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Howitt | Home, The | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'Throughout [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of [Lord Henry Howard's "A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies"]... | Gabriel Harvey | Lord Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton | A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Howie | Biographia Scoticana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And the monthly parts of "The Scots Worthies" which my father had carried with him from Sanday, and which were now in... | Edwin Muir | John Howie | The Scots Worthies | Print: Serial / periodical, bound by father into a volume |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's "A Modern Instance" as "a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterl... | Arthur Symons | William Dean Howells | A Modern Instance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your "Easy Chair" article in this month?s ... | Arnold Bennett | William Dean Howells | 'Easy Chair' column | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage... | Arnold Bennett | W.D. Howells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 December 1842:
'I like Mary Howitt's lyrical poetry -- ballad poetry, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Howitt | The Seven Temptations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 July 1843:
'I am reading William Howitt's Germany with a good deal of... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Howitt | Rural and Domestic Life of Germany | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si... | James Hogg | Charles Howard | Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si... | James Hogg | Charles Howard | Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[She thanks them for the great pleasure two of their works had given her 'by their charming descriptions of natural s... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Wiiliam Howitt | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I believe I have not written to you since I saw the end of the Undiscovered Country.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Dean Howells | Undoscovered Country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I... | Priscilla Gurney | How | [account of mission] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Julia Ward Howe | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 August 1797: 'Our Edwards were tolerable considering the day they l... | Robert Southey | Edmund Howes | The Annales, or Generalle Chronicle of England, Begun First by Maister John Stow, and After Him Continued and Augmented with Matters Forreine and Domesticall unto the End of Yeare 1610, by E. H. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (October 1821):
'"Paestum" was in the "Times" to-... | Harriet Countess Granville | George Howard | Paestum | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824):
'What a pretty book C... | Harriet Countess Granville | George Howard | verses | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Very extensive reading notes from the sixth edition of James ... | Edward Pordage | James Howell | Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ familiar letters, domestic and forren: divided into four books, partly historical, political, philosophical, upon emergent occasions | Print: Book |