| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Cons... | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) Richard Steele | The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Richard Steele | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Richard Steele | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ... | John Masefield | Richard Steele | [essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mary Martin came to live with me at 30s per year. Read "The Conscious Lovers" in the even.' | Thomas Turner | Richard Steele | The Conscious Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Sir Richard Steele's Dedication of his Account of the state of the Roman Catholic Religion to the Pope'. | Dudley Ryder | Richard Steele | An Account of the State of the Roman Catholic Religion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Richard Steele | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over the first Vol. of the "Tatlers"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Steele | The Tatler | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Steele | [Essays] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |