√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | 'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and wh... | William Ewart Gladstone | Margaret Oliphant | Makers of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture character... | William Ewart Gladstone | Margaret Oliphant | Jerusalem: Its History and Hope | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to hi... | William Ewart Gladstone | William Watson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (... | William Ewart Gladstone | Julia Kavanagh | Natalie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]." | William Ewart Gladstone | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapeg... | William Ewart Gladstone | Hall Caine | The Scapegoat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started ... | William Ewart Gladstone | Marie Corelli | A Romance of Two Worlds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started ... | William Ewart Gladstone | Marie Corelli | Ardath | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, wa... | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, wa... | William Ewart Gladstone | Emile Zola | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...' | William Ewart Gladstone | Mrs Humphry Ward | The History of David Grieve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.' | William Ewart Gladstone | | Latin texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.' | William Ewart Gladstone | | Italian texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Friday 20 November 1840]. Before prayers work with my Father- cards at night- shooting - read Stahl- Clarendon- Burne... | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Saturday 21 November 1840]. [...] read Clarendon- Burnet - worked on Ch. & State [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Monday 23 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & State [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Tues 24 November 1840]. read Burnet - Bruce on Assam- Clarendon- [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Weds 25 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Neal - Clarendon- [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Thurs 26 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon Life- d[itt]o Reln and Policy- Poems- Tyler- H[enry] V. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Fri 27 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sat 28 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sunday 21 November 1841]. [...] Read Knight's Life of Colet. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Samuel Knight | Life of Dr John Colet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began Clinton's Introduction &c.' | William Ewart Gladstone | Henry Fynes Clinton | Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bland — Clinton — a little Herodotus.' | William Ewart Gladstone | Henry Fynes Clinton | Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thucydides — Clinton — Public Lecture in Diff. Calc — reading it & Questions ... | William Ewart Gladstone | Henry Fynes Clinton | Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton... | William Ewart Gladstone | Henry Fynes Clinton | Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & ... | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas William Lancaster | The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas William Lancaster | The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas William Lancaster | The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 18,19. Frid. Sat. Two very idle days- read a little Allgebraic Geometry, in Powell and Lardner [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Baden Powell | The elements of curves: designed for the use of students of the | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 25 Fri. [...] Rode to Cuddesdon with Bruce- to remain there for a fortnight. read Powell's Differential Calculus in af... | William Ewart Gladstone | Baden Powell | An elementary treatise on the geometry of curves and curved surfaces : | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity. | William Ewart Gladstone | Edward Burton | Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [...] Finished Burton [...] | William Ewart Gladstone | Edward Burton | Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ | Print: Book |