√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd by myself in own chamber. Read 'Tale of a Tub'. Bed 11... | Gertrude Savile | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of A Tub | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Tale of Tub' 1 hour. Bed past 10. | Gertrude Savile | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of A Tub | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Jonathan Swift | Essay on the Fates of Clergymen | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swi... | William Wordsworth | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swi... | William Wordsworth | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim... | Hugh Miller | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | 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 | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tal... | Spike Mays | Jonathan Swift | "Gulliver's Travels" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The best I have read are two or three of Swift?s, who has a real go in him wh. cannot be quenched even by theology. T... | Leslie Stephen | Swift | sermons | 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 | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I remember once to have seen a little collection of letters and poetical scraps of Swift's, which passed between him ... | Samuel Richardson | Jonathan Swift | [letters and poetical scraps] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Jonathan Swift | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn fo... | Jane Austen | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jonathan Swift | The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it bit... | William Windham | Jonathan Swift | ['Ode to Athenian Society'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T... | Edwin Muir | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 9th March,
Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson.
The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Ro... | Gerald Moore | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 17th March,
Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O.... | Gerald Moore | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Dean Swift | [Captain Crichton's autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished, afterwards, "Gulliver's Travels". Could this severe satire....' | Thomas Green | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Swift's "Four last Years of Queen Anne"; a clear, connected detail of facts, exhibited with exquisite art...' | Thomas Green | Jonathan Swift | The history of the four last years of the Queen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs F--R , April 7 1797 'They are very happy too in their eldest son, who promises to be all that they praye... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jonathan Swift | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure ple... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Gullivers Travels aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jonathan Swift | Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jonathan Swift | Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jonathan Swift | Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Somebody sent Ben an unexpurgated edition of Gulliver for Xmas. He had read most of it before I discovered. It was ... | Benedict Nicolson | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Jonathan Swift | [poems to Stella] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that... | Mr Sharpe | Jonathan Swift | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had him [Dean Swift] all to myself for near three hours, during which time he made me read to him the Annals of the... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | History of the Four Last Years of the Queen | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstand... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | 'a Libel on Dr Delany and a Certain Great Lord' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We supp'd at the Dean's, and I had been reading out, by his Command, some of his prosaic Work; he was pleased to say ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | [prose works] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Dean then shew'd me the Poem he wrote on his own death; when I came to that Part of it,
[italics] Behold the f... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | Verses on the Death of Dr Swift | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Dean then shew'd me the Poem he wrote on his own death; when I came to that Part of it,
[italics] Behold the f... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | Life and Genuine Character of Dr Swift, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Describing a very ugly woman] 'I think I must for the rest refer my Reader to the Lady's Dressing Room, for
[ital... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | Lady's Dressing-Room, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'my Curiosity led me to read the Letter before I examined the Contents of the Paper [plum cake from Jonathan Swift], w... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | [a letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 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 | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...]
'[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | The Battle of the Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | David Dalrymple | Jonathan Swift | [satires] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputa... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Swift having been mentioned, Johnson, as usual, treated him with little respect as an author. Some of us endeavoured ... | Dr Douglas | Jonathan Swift | The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Swift having been mentioned, Johnson, as usual, treated him with little respect as an author. Some of us endeavoured ... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War | |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Drapier's Letters, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Plan for the Improvement of the English Language | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest an... | Alfred Tennyson | Jonathan Swift | Legion Club | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest an... | Alfred Tennyson | Jonathan Swift | Legion Club | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says h... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says h... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | History Of the Four last years Of the Queen | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu... | Dr Delap | Jonathan Swift | History Of the Four last years Of the Queen | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | The Bubble: A Poem; aka, The South Sea Project | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh... | Hester Maria Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa
Who... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | 'Cadenus and Vanessa' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818:
'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been ... | George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales | Jonathan Swift | works (including correspondence) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:]
'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen pa... | Elizabeth Carter | Deane Swift | Essay on the Life, &c. of Dr Swift | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | Howard R. Smith | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | Dorothy Brain | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | T. C. Elliott | Jonathan Swift | Drapier's Letters, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | Alfred Rawlings | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766, on her pursuit of her 'journal-letter scheme':]
'I shall fan... | Catherine Talbot and family | Jonathan Swift | Letters | Print: Book |