| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Victor-Marie Hugo | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Victor-Marie Hugo | Notre-Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Victor-Marie Hugo | Les Miserables | 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 | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Victor Hugo | Nore Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot | Victor Hugo | L'Homme Qui Rit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Victor Hugo | Ruy Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ... | Edwin Muir | Victor Hugo | Notre Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'but I was reading "Les Miserables", and consoled myself with the thought that I was too capable of loving noble things.' | Edwin Muir | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Wilson introduced us to another author - Victor Hugo... in 1925, "Les Miserables" gripped us even more than "Pickw... | Walter Wilson | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | Victor Hugo | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | Victor Hugo | Notre-Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842:
''Have you observed what I have observed [...] that Ch... | Elizabeth Barrett | Victor Hugo | Les derniers jours d'un condamne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was only a month before or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had read to him aloud from beginning to end, ... | Joseph Conrad | Victor Hugo | Les Travailleurs de la Mer | Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, Conrad's father's translation into Polish. |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 March 1845:
'I have the first volume of Victor Hugo's "Odes et Ballad... | Mary Russell Mitford | Victor Hugo | Odes et Ballades (volume 1) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | #Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Victor Hugo | various romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among ... | Alfred Tennyson | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor H... | Alfred Tennyson | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | C. Elliott | Victor Hugo | [letter] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Thomas C. Elliott | Victor Hugo | Booz endormi, from La légende des siècles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Thomas C. Elliott | Victor Hugo | L’Expiation (section on Waterloo) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | E. Dorothy Brain | Victor Hugo | Les Misérables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Reginald H. Robson | Victor Hugo | Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | H. B. Lawson | Victor Hugo | Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I think it was Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables that decided me to do what I could to alleviate the distress and su... | David Lloyd George | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |