| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Charlotte Smith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two mor... | William Wordsworth | Charlotte Smith | [sonnets (two)] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | William Wordsworth | Charlotte Smith | Elegiac Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again unde... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty... | Charles Maturin | Charlotte Smith | The Old Manor House | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.? | Maria Edgeworth | Charlotte Smith | Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of National history and historical anecdotes and original stories | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work... | Anna Larpent | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "... | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Letters of a Solitary Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "ver... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "ver... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls ... | John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White | Charlotte Smith | Celestina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coac... | John Marsh | Charlotte Smith | The Young Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Evening by Charlotte Smith Oh soothing hour, when glowing Day, ...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Charlotte Smith | Evening | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening walk out - read the Solitary wanderer' | Mary Godwin | Charlotte Smith | Letters of a Solitary Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline' | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Charlotte Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 16 March 1826:
'In the evening after dinner read Mrs. Charlotte Smith's novel Desmond, decidedly the wors... | Walter Scott | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |