| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charles and Mary Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Charles Lamb | Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... | Chaim Lewis | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Charles Lamb | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tal... | Spike Mays | Charles Lamb | Tales from Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 4 October 1800: 'A ... rather showery and gusty, morning ... Read a pa... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Charles Lamb | Pride's Cure | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Lamb | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 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 | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot... | R.L. Wild | Charles Lamb | Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fort... | Hilary Spalding | Charles Lamb | Some Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fort... | Hilary Spalding | Charles Lamb | The Best of Lamb | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washingto... | Thomas Carter | Charles Lamb | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Montalambert | The Monks of the West | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: 'Revelled in Lamb's letters. What an exquisite specimen is that man of... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Lamb | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Charles Lamb | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Lamb | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lambs specimens.' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'Has your Ladyship seen Lamb's letters, in Mr Talfourd's... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Lamb | Letters of Charles Lamb, With a Sketch of His Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lambs Specimens' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All I can say at all likely to give you any pleasure is, that I read poor dear Charles Lamb's Memoirs and Letters wit... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charles Lamb | Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some verses which I read in the Examiner; I think them very witty, although very abominable'. [What follow... | Matthew Lewis | Charles Lamb | 'The Triumph of the Whale' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Jewsbury lay on the floor and read half through the Essays of Elia and called our drawing room "such an ugly roo... | Miss Jewsbury | Charles Lamb | Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think she thought I was French as I was reading the "Matin". But when I picked up Lamb which was obviously an Engl... | Harold Nicolson | Charles Lamb | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Charles Lamb | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'I know that our tastes differ much in poetry. & ye... | Robert Southey | Charles Lamb | 'Written Soon after the Preceding Poem’ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Miss Pollard | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Helen Rawlings | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Alfred Rawlings | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Miss Goadby | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | George Burrow | Charles Lamb | [letters] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Alfred Rawlings | Charles Lamb | [a letter] | Unknown |