| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason f... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress... | Herbert Hodge | William Makepeace Thackeray | Barry Lyndon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Makepeace Thackeray | | 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 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the l... | Philip Ballard | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and L... | Max Beerbohm | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Four Georges | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | William Makepeace Thackeray | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?Of course, it is true that English writers ? Thackeray conspicuously so ? are injured by being cramped as to love in ... | Leslie Stephen | William Thackeray | | 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 | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 14 February 1852, after having been lent the first volume of W. M. Thackeray, "Henry... | Charlotte Bronte | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Henry Esmond (volume I) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, May 1853: 'The "Lectures" arrived safely; I have read them through twice. They must... | Charlotte Bronte | William Makepeace Thackeray | Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Virginians | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t... | Gwen Raverat | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Great Hoggarty Diamond | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the m... | William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times' | William Thackeray | Virginians | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative ... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p... | Lawrence Durrell | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Heny Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My [Harriet Martineau's] first real interest in [Thackeray] arose from reading M. A. Titmarsh in Ireland, during my T... | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Irish Sketch-Book by M. A. Titmarsh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Esmond" appears to me [Harriet Martineau] [italics]the [end italics] book of the century, in its department. I have... | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Henry Esmond Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'While at Cromer [...] I read "Pendennis" with such intense enjoyment [...] that the notion of trying my hand once mor... | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Henry Esmond | 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 | William Makepeace Thackeray | [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 ... | | William Makepeace Thackeray | [novels] | 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 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newco... | Albert Battiscombe | William Thackeray | The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading the "English humourists" by Thackeray' | Albert Battiscombe | William Thackeray | The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 15th February,
Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnifice... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | Barry Lindon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Four Georges | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 13th April,
Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehe... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 27th August
I bought ?Esmond? and ?Westward Ho!? today and started to read the former.
Why is Thackeray su... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have had all things considered and thanks principally to Philip, a very passable Christmas day [...] then went upst... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Adventures of Philip | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 27 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional p... | Desmond MacCarthy | William Makepeace Thackeray | Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'they, the Scotts, where [sic] in a state of delight about Esmond, which Thackeray had given them' | the Scotts | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with... | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia | William Makepeace Thackeray | Virginians, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Makepeace Thackeray | Lovel the Widower | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'The History of Pendennis (2 vols, 1849-50) by William Makepeace Thackeray was published by Bradbury and Evans in twen... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?3 December, 1850: 'I send the first volume of Pendennis. We have one more ... | Robert Browning | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also f... | Lucy Housman | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | William Makepeace Thackeray | The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they ... | Alfred Tennyson | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they ... | Alfred Tennyson | William Makepeace Thackeray | Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they ... | Alfred Tennyson | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at home & read "The Newcomers" until nearly mid-night.' | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was sitting between one & two o'clock quietly enjoying a chapter in "Vanity Fair" when there was a bustling noise [... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading "Vanity Fair" again & found it even more enjoyable than when I read it for the first time. I real... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.' | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home & finished "Vanity Fair" before tea-time.' | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed up very late to-night reading Thackeray's scraps contributed in the olden days to Punch & Frazer's Magazine.... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read some of Thackeray to Mrs Castieau & the youngsters this evening. The account of Master Augustus's visit to the p... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Charles Stansfield | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | T.T. Cass | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Frederick J. Edminson | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Miss Pollard | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Miss Goadby | William Makepeace Thackeray | Some Roundabout Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Charles Stansfield | William Makepeace Thackeray | Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Charles Evans | William Makepeace Thackeray | Newcomes, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Makepeace Thackeray | Roundabout Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Howard Smith | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | 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 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [following journal entry for 1 November 1879] 'The next few days [following seven weeks' travels in Europe] were occup... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Makepeace Thackeray | Humorists | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 7 December 1879:
'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Re... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Makepeace Thackeray | Humorists | 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... | George Burrow | William Makepeace Thackeray | Essay on Jonathan Swift | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:
'I hardly ever felt delight... | Charlotte Bronte | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Unknown |