√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | "Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly ... | William Wordsworth | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosi... | Tom Barclay | Ovid | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where... | R.E. Prothero | Ovid | Tristia IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | Ovid | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdi... | John Drummond Erskine | Ovid | Metamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the arguments and notes of John Minellius translated into English, to which is marginally added, a prose version ? For the use of schools. By Nathan Bailey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I started doing some easy Ovid and loved it. He writes beautiful poety - [underline] when [end underline] I can unde... | Hilary Spalding | Ovid | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having calle... | Samuel Pepys | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having calle... | Elizabeth Pepys | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'the Storry [of Philemon and Baucis] pleases mee, none in Ovide soe much. I remember I cryed when I read it, mee thoug... | Dorothy Osborne | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am getting on very well with Ovid.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ovid | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg... | Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some lines of Ovid before breakfast' | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de... | Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ovid | Metamorphoses - story of Myrrha | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (T... | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses (3rd fable) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the 4th and 5th fables of Ovid' | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses (4th and 5th fables) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her R... | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ovid | Metamorphoses (vii) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read over the Ovid to Jefferson' | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'. | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Sh... | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto ... | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid' | Mary Shelley | Ovid | [unknown] | Print: Book |