| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 5 October 1799: 'Mentioning [...] [Madame de Coigny] puts me in mind of a book which I am... | Mary Berry | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to a friend, from Nice, March 1803: 'I am reading over for the fiftieth time, I believe, the letters of Mad... | Mary Berry | Madame De Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame... | Edward Morgan Forster | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803:
'I have only read 2 of Belsham's ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 19 November 1803 ('Friday evening'):
'I just this mom... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 24 November 1803:
'I lament the reason I am going t... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Madame de Sevigne | Letters (vol. 5) | Print: Book |