| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Boo... | Dorothy Wordsworth | various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant an... | William Wordsworth | Various | Annual Anthology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bard... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Monthly Literary Recreations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Even... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | [Sunday papers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... m... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perus... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Christian Observer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh R... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with hi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Various | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | various | Lives of poets | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he ... | Hugh Walpole | various | The Abbotsford Correspondence | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a rev... | Leslie Stephen | Various | Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The statement wh. I transmitted to you about Cortes was the vaguest but I will see if I can find out anything from my... | Leslie Stephen | Various | Saturday Review, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '6/11/1830 - I have just read the speeches of our Parliament in the Journal des Debats. How entirely I agree with Lord... | Amelia Opie | Various | Journal des Debats | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued ... | Thomas Carlyle | various | [histories] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Anna Larpent's diary mentions over 440 titles, including forty-six English novels (She preferred those by women or wo... | Anna Larpent | various | various | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. | George Eliot [pseud] | various | The Leader | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. | George Eliot [pseud] | various | Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Leader" and Scherr'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [various] | The Leader | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | various | [articles in the National] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906, thanking him for a copy of "Astarte", Lovelace's account of his ... | Henry James | various | Byron family papers | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907, in response to her question about his favourite fairy stories when a chil... | Henry James | various | [unidentified book of fairy stories] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucub... | Thomas Carlyle | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" d... | Elizabeth Barrett | various | Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Various | Modern Short Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Various | Best Sporting Stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Lambtons sent me the last Edinburgh, prematurely brought out for the Eastern article. That art: was bad enough; b... | Harriet Martineau | various authors | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading the new Edinburgh and much like the first article. I wonder who wrote it. The one on Ireland I li... | Harriet Martineau | various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | [various English poets] | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant ... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown-probably various contributors] | [poems in newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | various | The Oxford English Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about one book per day.' | John H.S. Craig | various | various | Print: Advertisement, Book, Form, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster, Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engage... | John Nutting | various | Miscellany of verse | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1600-1699 | A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engage... | John Susan | various | Miscellany of verse | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'Even eight-year-old Willy [Godwin] went once in a while to hear his Papa [William Godwin]'s friend [S. T. Coleridge] ... | William Godwin jr | various | lecture on 'The Influence of Government on the Character of the People' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pamphlets.' | Mary Shelley | various | [pamphlets on Irish politics] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Together Edward and I looked at "The Times History of the War", picked out a newspaper paragraph stating that the tot... | Vera Brittain | various | The Times History of the War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have fallen in love with the Charles of Orleans period and cannot get enough of it. I see six essays at least, on s... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Various | [Texts by or about 15th-century French literary and historical figures] | Print: Probably books and articles. |
| 1850-1899 | '[…] I keep reading XVth Century […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | various | [works on the fifteenth century] | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic... | Robert Southey | various | Poems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall | Print: Book |