| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at... | William Wordsworth | Miguel de Cervantes Savedra | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Miguel de Cervantes | probably Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciat... | Frederick Rogers | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on ... | Edward Trelawny | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | 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 | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but h... | Virginia Woolf | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ... | Janet Case | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 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) | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to l... | Alfred Tennyson | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |