| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | "Under his instruction -while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'... | Thomas Cooper | Voltaire | Charles the Twelfth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire | A Treatise on Toleration | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never... | Francis Place | Voltaire | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 vol... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Voltaire | Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litterarie Typographique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extre... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ... [H. G.] Wells relearnt French by reading Voltaire for himself in the early 1880s and through visits to France ...' | H. G. Wells | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She began Candide but "threw it aside, and nothing, I believe, will tempt me ever to look into it again."' | Elizabeth Carter | Francois-Marie Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part o... | John Marsh | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Voltaire | unknown | 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 | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Voltaire (pseud.) | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read memoirs of Voltaire.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Voltaire | Memoirs of the life of Voltaire written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Zadig.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Voltaire | Zadigi ou la destinee | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Voltaire (pseud.) | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is ... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire (pseud.) | [shorter tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After that I read Voltaire's "Candide", and at 12 o'clock adjourned for a pint to the local pub. Switched on the wire... | | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr de Regis read us "Semiramis" a fine trajedy of Voltaire what gave me great pleasure'. | [Mr] de Regis | Voltaire [pseud.] | Semiramis | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Volta... | Thomas Carlyle | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Pucelle d'Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A much greater man than Rousseau says, "The only remedy for the infectious disease of Fanaticism, is a philosophical ... | James Lackington | Voltaire | (possibly) The Philosophical Dictionary for the pocket, Written in French by a society of men of letters and translated into English | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Voltaire's "Siecle de Louis 14me.": a most entertaining and instructive work...' | Thomas Green | Voltaire | Essay sur l?histoire du siecle de Louis XIV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Voltaire before breakfast (87)' | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her R... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Voltaire Essai sur des Nations' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | 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 | Voltaire (pseud.) | Le Bible enfin explique | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire (pseud.) | Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley goes alone to the Glacier of Boison - I stay at home - read several tales of Voltaire' | Mary Godwin | Voltaire (pseud.) | [possibly] Romans et contes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'. | Mary Godwin | Voltaire (pseud.) | [possibly] Romans et contes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Voltaire | Louis XIV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads "France" - read Romans de Voltaire - Hume' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire | Zadig, ou la destinee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Zaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Alzire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 10th Canto of Ariosto - the Mahomet of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Mahomet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Merope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Tragedie de Semiramis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Tancrede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | L'Orphelin de Chine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Greek - Voltaire's Tales' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic... | a lady in waiting to Princess Caroline | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic... | Charlotte Bury | Voltaire | Candide | 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 | Voltaire [pseud.] | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I understand from Mr. Bagguley that it is you who are the craftsman of the binding of the "Candide" which he has been... | Arnold Bennett | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | James Boswell | Voltaire [pseud.] | Candide: Or, All for the Best | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | Samuel Johnson | Voltaire [pseud.] | Candide: Or, All for the Best | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | Voltaire | [books of history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Voltaire [pseud.] | Zadig | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, 28 October 1792: 'If the Baron of Thundertentroncks castle had not been destro... | Robert Southey | Voltaire | Candide, ou l'Optimisme | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 22 November - 2 December 1793: 'Do not imagine that I am vindicating the ... | Robert Southey | Voltaire | Candide, ou l'Optimisme | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Tancred | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is ... | John Ruskin | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde also excelled in French. His copy of Voltaire's "Histoire de Charles XII" bears the autograph and date "Oscar W... | Oscar Wilde | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Mary Robson | Voltaire [pseud.] | Zadig | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Katherine Evans | Voltaire [pseud.] | Letters on England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Francis Pollard | Voltaire [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | C. Elliott | Voltaire [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is years since I have read "Candide" of course in French. I must tell you I have been immensely pleased by the par... | Joseph Conrad | François-Marie Arouet Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found Voltaire's ''Louis XIV. very pleasant and short, leaving out all the battles. Voltaire seems so impresse... | Emma Darwin | Voltaire | The Age of Lewis XIV | Print: Book |