| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun... | John Johnson | John Stuart Mill | Principles of Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a coro... | Rose Macaulay | John Stuart Mill | probably 'On Liberty' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | John Stuart Mill | | Print: Book |
| 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 | John Stuart Mill | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | John Stuart Mill | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s... | Thomas Burt | John Stuart Mill | Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | Conquest in America, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | Principles of Political Economy | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Stuart Mill | A System of Logic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | [on socialism] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I ... | Virginia Woolf | John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conject... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to Harriet Grote (wife), 14 October 1853:
'I immediately sent for the "Edinburgh Review," and have rea... | George Grote | John Stuart Mill | Article on George Grote's History of Greece | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to John Stuart Mill (January 1862):
'I have just been reading your three articles in "Fraser's Magazin... | George Grote | John Stuart Mill | articles 'upon the Principles of Utility' | Print: Serial / periodical |