√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | '[Robert Blatchford] found Sartor Resartus intimidating: "after reading the famous meditaton on the sleeping city, I t... | Robert Blatchford | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating ... | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | Samuel Smiles | Self Help | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Robert Southey | Life of Nelson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Captain Marryat | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Charlotte, Anne, Emily Bronte | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | novels | Print: Book |