| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesti... | Edward Fitzgerald | John Wesley | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | John Wesley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | John Wesley | Sermons on Several Occasions OR Three Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fi... | Samuel Bamford | John Wesley | Journals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Of him [lodger ? a Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was... | Thomas Carter | John Wesley | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Of him [lodger ? Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was n... | Thomas Carter | John Wesley | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answe... | James Lackington | Wesley | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?? for a long time I read ten chapters in the Bible every day, I also read and learned many hymns, and as soon as I co... | James Lackington | Wesley | Tracts and Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On WM Butler's monument in Westminster Abbey Whilst Butler needy wretch! was yet alive, ...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Samuel Wesley ('the Younger') | On the Setting up of Mr Butler's Monument | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & ... | Betty Shaw | [Wesley?] | [hymn book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'April 20 1828 / on Betty Shaw wife of Benj. Shaw / ... this washer favourite verse Who suffer with our master here We... | Betty Shaw | Charles Wesley | [Hymn] Come on my Partners in Distress | Print: Book |