√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickl... | Patrick Delany | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captain... | John Yeoman | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick Random | John Yeoman | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the ... | William Heaton | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Tobias George Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | 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 | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the cont... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I got thro 6 chapters of Count Fathom- about an hours undertaking- and this has been the way thro my whole readings- ... | William Upcott | Tobias George Smollett | The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Tobias Smollet | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Humphry Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | 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 | Tobias Smollett | The expedition of Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished reading Fathom [underlined].' | Alfred Tennyson | Tobias Smollett | Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Tobias Smollet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There ... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Tobias Smollett | Complete History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 14th October
?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'. | Gerald Moore | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless yo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | The expedition of Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked o... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Roderick Random' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848:
'19th [June]. Finished reading Fathom.' | Alfred Tennyson | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Tobias Smollett | Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I proceeded on sad & solitary to Hounslow & there ga... | Robert Southey | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occur... | Robert Southey | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occur... | Robert Southey | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Humphry Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Tobias Smollett | History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 18 July 1876:
'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, w... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |