| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Guy de Maupassant | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his con... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been don... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Guy de Maupassant | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: "I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and deli... | Henry James | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: "I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro." | Henry James | Guy de Maupassant | Notre Coeur | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Guy de Maupassant | [tales: short stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking,... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday,13th February,
Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)' | Gerald Moore | Guy de Maupassant | Notre Coeur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of "La Maison Tellier" is the licensed brothel and its inmates'. | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | La Maison Tellier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me.... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book, see additional comments |
| 1850-1899 | 'I fear I may be too much under the influence of Maupassant. I have studied "Pierre et Jean" - thought, method and all... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Pierre et Jean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual un... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | [Stories] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909:
'I never thanked you for the boo... | Leonard Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | 'tale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occ... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Stories from De Maupassant [English title] | Manuscript: Proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'The other day I took up "Yvette". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!' | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Yvette and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Guy De Maupassant | | Print: Book |