| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | John Keats | [a minor poem] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Alexander Pope | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | William Cowper | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Kirke White | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Felicia Hemans | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Samuel Rogers | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "In 1932 Thomas Burke paid tribute to T. P.'s Weekly for having fired his imagination and given direction to his life ... | Thomas Burke | | T. P.'s Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Thomas Burke on reading The Bookman as teenager, in Son of London (1947, 1948): "'I lived through each month for it; a... | Thomas Burke | | The Bookman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thomas Burke on literary figures' responses to his requests, as a teenager, for advice on starting a career as a write... | Thomas Burke | George Gissing | New Grub Street | Print: Book |