| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that beco... | V.W. Garratt | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 'The Lotus Eaters' | Print: Unknown |
| 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 | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Through the Women's Co-operative Guild, Deborah Smith] began reading poetry and, at age fifty one, discovered her ow... | Deborah Smith | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 'Break, break, break' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'From a classroom library of perhaps two dozen volumes [Richard Hillyer] borrowed one by Tennyson, simply because it h... | Richard Hillyer | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ... | Rose Macaulay | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | Alfred Lord Tennyson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Alfred Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Alfred Lord Tennyson | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Alfred Lord Tennyson | The Princess | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggli... | Maud du Puy | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to hear Mr and Mrs Wigan read Tennyson and "the Rivals" at Apsley House'. | Mr and Mrs Wigan | Alfred Lord Tennyson | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alfred Lord Tennyson | [poems including 'The First Quarrel'] | Print: Book |