| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Shelley | The Last Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hist. of [French]. Rev. and corrects F. write Preface' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | Manuscript: Unknown, Mary Shelley's MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where
Clairmont received a... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Shelley | Letter to Claire Clairmont | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where
Clairmont received a... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Shelley | Letter to Claire Clairmont | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read to Mrs G.[isborne]' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Valperga | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Matilda to Jane' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Matilda | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Matilda to E.' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Matilda | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish C.A. to Jane' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Valperga | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received my desk today [shipped from England] & have been reading my letters to mine own Shelley during his ab... | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | [letters to PB Shelley] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of... | Leigh Hunt | Mary Shelley | Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 11 September 1845:
'Mrs Shelley found Italy for the first t... | Robert Browning | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 1843 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the b... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Mary Shelley | Last Man, The | Print: Book |