√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | prisoner's statement in trial for theft:
Brown: "I was going to the West India Dock, I had a newspaper in my handin... | William Brown | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Henry Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Jules Verne | Around the World in Eighty Days | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Charles Darwin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Thomas Henry Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '"I had often read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress", recalled [...] William Brown, "and considered myself like the apostat... | William Brown | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |