√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 6 February, 1802: '... wrote ... after tea, and translated two or thre... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a li... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 February, 1802: 'We did a little of Lessing. I attempted a fable, bu... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Fable | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 25 February, 1802: 'I reached home [from walk] just before dark ... go... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Essay | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 12 March 1802: ' ... I read the remainder of Lessing.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Laocoon'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear a... | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Nathan der Weise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Minna von Barnhelm | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Leben, nebst seinem noch ubrigen litterarischen Nachlasse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Gotthold Ephraim Lessings samm Hiche Schriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening talk with Shelley read Emilia Galotti'. | Mary Godwin | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Emilia Galotti | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Sunday -- Rose about 9... | George Grote | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass... | George Grote | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 'theological writings' | Print: Book |