| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | '...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for author... | Edmund Gosse | | Lesson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of ... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive or... | Edmund Gosse | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus ... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permane... | Edmund Gosse | Ben Jonson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanen... | Edmund Gosse | Christopher Marlowe | Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my ste... | Edmund Gosse | Christopher Marlowe | Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession ent... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely ... | Edmund Gosse | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Que... | Edmund Gosse | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for t... | Edmund Gosse | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk o... | Edmund Gosse | Robert Southey | Works (poetical?) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of... | Edmund Gosse | F.T Palgrave | The Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and t... | Edmund Gosse | | Greek New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since th... | Edmund Gosse | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -s... | Edmund Gosse | John Ruskin | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...the inside of the lid of it was lined with sheets of what I now know to have been a sensational novel. It was of c... | Edmund Gosse | [unknown] | [sensational novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And with that, dismissing the subject, I dived again into the unplumbed depths of the "Penny Cyclopaedia"'. | Edmund Gosse | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | The Penny Cyclopaedia | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, -with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a bo... | Edmund Gosse | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, - with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a b... | Edmund Gosse | Benjamin Wills Newton | Thoughts on the Apocalypse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I came across a piece of verse which exercised a lasting influence on my taste. It was called "The Cameronian's Dream... | Edmund Gosse | James Hyslop | The Cameronian's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was, for instance, a writer on prophecy called Jukes, of whose works each of my parents was inordinately fond, ... | Edmund Gosse | Andrew John Jukes | The law of the offerings in Leviticus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on, a publication called the "Penny Cyclopaedia" became my daily, and for a long time almost my sole study...' | Edmund Gosse | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | The Penny Cyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Juke... | Edmund Gosse | Bishop Edward Elliott | Horae Apocalypticae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At other times, I dragged a folio volume of the "Penny Cyclopaedia" up to the studywith me, and sat there reading suc... | Edmund Gosse | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | The Penny Cyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When in years to come, I read "Dombey and Son", certain features of Mrs Pipchin did irresistibly remind me of my exce... | Edmund Gosse | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught... | Edmund Gosse | [unknown] | [Latin Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. "You'll find all about th... | Edmund Gosse | Michael Scott | Tom Cringle's Log | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following after... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...but she procured for me a copy of "Pickwick", by which I was instantly and gloriously enslaved. My shouts of laugh... | Edmund Gosse | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Dr. Edward Young | The Last Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Robert Blair | The Grave | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Bishop Beilby Porteus | Death | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Boyse | The Deity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, contai... | Edmund Gosse | [unknown] | [volume of engravings] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Boyse | The Deity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My Father possessed a copy of Bailey's "Etymological Dictionary", a book published early in the eighteenth century. O... | Edmund Gosse | Bailey (ed.) | Etymological Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |