√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | George Gissing in diary, 9 August 1894: "'Read Hall Caine's 'The Manxman', which has just appeared in 1 vol., instead ... | George Gissing | Hall Caine | The Manxman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter ... | George Gissing | George Moore | Esther Waters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | George Meredith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Heinrich Heine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Joseph Marie Eugene Sue | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Henri Murger | Scenes de la Vie Boheme | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Auguste Comte | Cours de Philosophie Positive | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Moliere | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | George Sand [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Honore de Balzac | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Alfred de Musset | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Henrik Ibsen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Emile Zola | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Edmond de Goncourt | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | John Ruskin | Unto this Last | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Walter Scott | Redgauntlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Walter Savage Landor | Imaginary Conversations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Johann Peter Eckerman | Conversations of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Friedrich Schiller | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[During the 1880s Gissing] continued to read Latin and Greek authors daily'. | George Gissing | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Paul Charles Joseph Bourget | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Jens Peter Jacobsen | Niels lyhne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Jens Peter Jacobsen | Marie Grube | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Woodlanders, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Henrik Ibsen | Hedda Gabler | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | George Sand [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Honore de Balzac | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Emile Zola | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Leo Tolstoy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Gustave Flaubert | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Guy de Maupassant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Henrik Ibsen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Alphonse Daudet | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | J.P. Jacobsen | Niels Lyhne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Frederika Bremer | Hertha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Hippolyte Taine | History of English Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Paul Bourget | Études et portraits | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Paul Bourget | Essais de psychologie contemporaine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Albert Henry Buck | Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | William B. Carpenter | Principles of Mental Physiology, With Their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Theodule-Armand Ribot | Hérédité: étude psychologique | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from Gissing's diary] Spent the evening in a troubled state of mind, occasionaly glancing at Darwin's "Origin of Spe... | George Gissing | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not spe... | George Gissing | Aristophanes | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not spe... | George Gissing | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |