| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's Life of Scott to him ... | Mariabella Fry | John Gibson Lockhart | Life of Scott | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "I have just been reading, for the fourth time, I believe, The Simple Story, which I intended this time to read as a c... | Maria Edgeworth | Elizabeth Inchbald | A Simple Story | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "This minute I hear a carman is going to Navan, and I hasten to send you the Cottagers of Glenburnie, which I hope you... | Maria Edgeworth | Elizabeth Hamilton | The Cottages of Glenburnie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of P... | Maria Edgeworth | Vittorio Alfieri | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provo... | Maria Edgeworth | Germaine De Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William ... | Maria Edgeworth | Sir William Jones | Asiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from various publications consisting of translations, fugitive pieces | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience t... | Maria Edgeworth | John Sargent | The Mine; to which are added two historic odes (The vision of Stonehenge and Mary Queen of Scots) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong a... | Maria Edgeworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning t... | Maria Edgeworth | John Wilkins | Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon han... | Maria Edgeworth | William Nicholson | The First Principles of Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend t... | Maria Edgeworth | Charles-Louis Montesquieu | Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?We saw at Brussels two of the best Paris actors, and Madame Talma. The play was Racine?s Andromache (initiated in Eng... | Maria Edgeworth | Jean Racine | Andromache | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met ... | Maria Edgeworth | James Granger | A Biographical history of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father... | Maria Edgeworth | Charles Robert Dallas | History of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large build... | Maria Edgeworth | Maxmillian de Bethune Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.? | Maria Edgeworth | Charlotte Smith | Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of National history and historical anecdotes and original stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the... | Maria Edgeworth | Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse) | Mademoiselle de Clermont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming stor... | Maria Edgeworth | Breton | Voyage dans les Pays Bas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children c... | Maria Edgeworth | Berquin | Ami des Enfants: select stories for the instruction and entertainment of children | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story f... | Maria Edgeworth | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the... | Maria Edgeworth | Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la Platiere | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympat... | Maria Edgeworth | Kalidasa | Sakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Branwell to Patrick Bronte, 18 November 1812: 'On Saturday ev[enin]g about the time when you were writing your d... | Maria Branwell | | Letter from sister | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helen Maria Lucy Swanwick | | science books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick | | medical journals | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 't... | Marianne Farningham | | poem on family Bible | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 't... | Marianne Farningham | Felicia Hemans | The Better Land | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union'... | Marianne Farningham | | Sunday School Union magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | "The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote:
"'My Coz... | Maria | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Maria Josepha Holroyd in her teens was "enchanted" with the "all for Love" of de Stael's "Delphine", which in mature ... | Maria Josepha Holroyd | Germaine de Stael | Delphine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she op... | Maria | Heny Thomas Buckle | History of Civilization in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end... | Maria Weston Chapman | Harriet Martineau | Mary and her Grandmother | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Yes," bolted out Mrs. Bowdler, "Harriet is one of the greatest admirers of 'Evelina'."
These sort of abrupt speeche... | Henrietta Maria (Harriet) Bowdler | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . but I am going to the Library immediately for the Book, -though I assure you I read it all when it first came ... | Anna Maria Lawes | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Half a page in praise of Evenings, beginning:] 'No one can be so injudicious, or so unjust, as to class the excellent... | Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathet... | [ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The first books which are now usually put into the hands of a child are Mrs. Barbauld's "Lessons"; they are by far th... | Maria Edgeworth | Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) | Early Lessons for Children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I... | Maria Edgeworth | Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de Lamartine | Histoire des Girondins | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura':
'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were c... | Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray | Sir Henry Cole | The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?Pray have you read Miss Burney?s Book?? Book? What Book is it?? cried the other. ? A Novel, answered Miss Lawes,? but... | Anna Maria Lawes | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Sunday 18 October:
'we had service on the poop the Shoole master held it then was a box on board with books ther was ... | Maria Steley | [n/a] | [Bible or Prayer Books or Hymn Books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, 23-24 February 1827:
'As we were going down the ... | Lady Margaret Maria Cocks | Charlotte Anley | Miriam; Or, the Power of Truth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Marianne Francis | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Marianne Francis | John Locke | Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, An | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady
Strachey read to us -- ... | Jane Maria, Lady Strachey | Ben Jonson | masques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady
Strachey read to us -- ... | Jane Maria, Lady Strachey | Captain Ronald A. Hopwood | 'The Old Way' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?' | Marianne Gaskell | [unknown] | [a history of the French Revolution] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'. | Marianne Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [from SHR's intro] 'It was probably Day's "Sandford and Merton" which induced her [Maria Edgeworth] to apply her natur... | Maria Edgeworth | Thomas Day | Sandford and Merton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to hi... | Maria Edgeworth | Thomas Thomson | Annals of Philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very ... | Maria Edgeworth | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest f... | Maria Edgeworth | Samuel Romilly | [speech on the Slave Trade] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to... | Maria Edgeworth | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some body shewed my Mother the Verses written by Moses Franks upon Mrs Pitt bathing at Brighthelmstone - These says S... | Hester Maria Salusbury | Moses Franks | [verses on Mrs Pitt bathing] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da... | Hester Maria Thrale | Metastasio [pseud.] | Adriano | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh... | Hester Maria Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Maria Neild | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | [from] Sylvie and Bruno | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??illegible] and portraits as an intr... | Maria Neild | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817):
'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I hav... | Maria Graham | George Gordon Lord Byron | 'Swiss Journal [letter]' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817):
'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I hav... | Maria Graham | | French play | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817):
'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I hav... | Maria Graham | | play | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817:
'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lo... | Maria Graham | George Gordon Lord Byron | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817:
'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lo... | Maria Graham | | 'a Danish account of the north of Africa' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between Journal entries for 2 January and 28 February 1887]
'Until [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] eyes were uncovere... | Maria [nee Guest] | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Maria Branwell to her fiance, the Rev. Patrick Bronte, 5 December 1812:]
'Since I began this [letter] Jane put int... | Maria Branwell | George Lyttelton | Advice to a Lady | Print: Book |