| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn... | Jack Lawson | Charles Reade | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Reade | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class gi... | John Edmonds | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | Charles Reade | Cloister and the Hearth, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | 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?] | Charles Reade | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered & then lazily read The Cloister & the Hearth by Read until Polly came home to tea' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home to tea & spent the evening reading "The Cloister & Hearth".' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ... | Mary Pollard | Charles Reade | Christie Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ... | T.C. Elliott | Charles Reade | Cloister and the Hearth, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ... | Charles Evans | Charles Reade | Hard Cash | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ... | Francis Pollard | Charles Reade | [novels] | Print: Book |