| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Ruskin | Seven Lamps of Architecture, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Meta is turning out such a noble beautiful character - Her intellect and her soul, (or wherever is the part in which ... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I forgot to tell you that Meta reads with & teaches Elliot every night' | Margaret Emily Gaskell | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Three Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | Henrietta Jenkin | Cousin Stella | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Tyndall | Glaciers of the Alps, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave g... | Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[whilst watching a boat race at Eton] Meta said she thought of the verse in the Ancient Mariner "A Seraph band" &c, -... | Margaret Emily (Meta) Gaskell | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Rime of the Ancient mariner, The | Print: Book |