√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | [Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time repl... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Weekly Dispatch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time re... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | The Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | Charles Knight | Penny Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | G.W.M. Reynolds | Reynolds's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | anon | Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of... | William Edwin Adams | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the busin... | William Edwin Adams | Eliot Warburton | Crescent and the Cross | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the busin... | William Edwin Adams | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their o... | William Edwin Adams | Edward Young | The Complaint: or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from ... | William Edwin Adams | John Cobbett | Cobbett's Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from ... | William Edwin Adams | John Cassell | Popular Educator | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with ... | William Edwin Adams | Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The "Morning Star" was at that time the leading Radical daily in London ? almost the only Radical daily, indeed. It w... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Morning Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | [penny bloods] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | David Vincent relates how the nineteenth-century apprentice compositor William Adams rejected his usual work associate... | William Adams | Edward Young | The Complaint, and the Consolation, or, Night Thoughts | Print: Book |