| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into suc... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the ... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before deat... | William Makepeace Thackeray | Edward Bulwer Lytton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read ... | Anne Lister | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Eugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Edward Bulwer Lytton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | Edward Bulwer Lytton | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'. | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Night and Morning | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' | Margaret Oliphant | ?Edward ?Bulwer Lytton | St Stephen's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world... | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I tried to read Lord Lytton's Lucile which is rot." | Leslie Stephen | Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Lucile | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837
A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] work... | Branwell Bronte | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Eugene Aram | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton | The Coming Race | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Edward George, Earl Bulwer Lytton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called "Zanoni", an occult love story written by an English nobl... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Lord Lytton | Antony: A Record of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'. | George Eliot | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been seeking 'Falkland' here for a long time without success. Those beautiful extracts of it which you showed ... | Alfred Tennyson | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Falklands | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't know whether I shall lose your good opinion forever if I tell you a true thing; but I had rather you knew the... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Lost Tales of Miletus, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Edward Lytton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Fables in Song | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'All right, I'll see what I can do. Before I could answer, I had to see the book; and my good father, after trying at ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Fables in Song | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | ?Friday. I have got on rather better with the ?Fables?; perhaps it won?t be a failure, though I still fear...Saturday.... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Fables in Song | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at home all the evening really fascinated with Bulwer's "My Novel", got in fact so excited with the story tha... | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | My Novel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home read a little of my Novel smoked a Cigar and went quietly to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | My Novel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at home reading "Night & Morning".' | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Night and Morning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832:
'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Pelham, or The Adventures of a Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832:
'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | novels including The Disowned | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 May 1839:
'I am glad you have looked at Cheveley. [italics]Now[end i... | Elizabeth Barrett | Rosina, Lady Bulwer-Lytton | Cheveley, or the Man of Honour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'i have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so st... | Mary Howitt | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulw... | Mary Shelley | Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton | Paul Clifford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 March 1842:
'In regard to Zanoni, I think with you that there is much... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842:
'Sir L. Bulwer has just published a set of sing-songs -- I read two... | Robert Browning | Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Eva; the Ill-omened Marriage, and Other Tales and Poems (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 5 March 1843:
'Here we are sound asleep. Bulwer's new Novel, "The Last of the Ba... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | The Last of the Barons (extract) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'How detestably Sir Edward Bulwer speaks of Shelley in his life of Schiller. - he thinks to gain popularity by truckli... | Mary Shelley | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | [biograpohical sketch in] Poems and Ballads of Schiller | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 March 1843:
'Notwithstanding my admiration of Bulwer, I had the harde... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | The Last of the Barons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and ... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Alice, or The Mysteries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and ... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Ernest Maltravers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846:
'I forgot quite to quarrel with you a little about Sir E... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Edward Bulwer Lytton | 'Confessions and Observations of a Water-Patient' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850:
'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much p... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | The Caxtons. A Family Picture | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905:
'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 thin... | Leonard Woolf | Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al | Euphrosne | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Last Days of Pompeii | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are in the far west.
The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30
I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C... | Richard Sorabji | Lytton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening Polly was so deeply interested in a ghost story written by Lord Lytton & said to be the foundation of ... | Polly Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | [ghost story] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846:
'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[... | John Gibson Lockhart | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | The New Timon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 May 1854:
'My birthday [...] No cause of congratulations to me, alas, to have completed another year, when more ... | Lady Charlotte Guest | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | My Novel | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my el... | Zoe Procter | Edward Bulwer Lytton | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Still here [in camp] doing nothing and enjoying books. One book Ernest Maltravers by Lytton has impressed me very much.' | John Owen Maddox | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Ernest Maltravers | Print: Book |