| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Plutarch | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Plutarch | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ... | James Lackington | Plutarch | Morals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Edinburgh Review"; afterwards, for first time, after I know not what interval, a little Greek, viz. Plut. "Phoc... | William Windham | Plutarch | Phocian or Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | [Life of Alexander] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Homer's Hymns' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S read Plutarch's lives.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Plutarchs life of Marius' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | 'Life of Marius' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |