| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Miss Austen's "Emma", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing ... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read a part of "Northanger Abbey", which I do not much like. Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on o... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the p... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished "Mansfield Park", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, ... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Charles Macready, in diary entry for 3 August 1840:
'Read Browning's play [The Return of the Druses], and w... | William Charles Macready | Robert Browning | The Return of the Druses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wiliam Charles Macready, Journal, 6 August 1841:
'Finished the play of Plighted Troth -- a play written in a quaint... | William Charles Macready | Charles F. Darley | Plighted Troth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Charles Macready, Jr. to Robert Browning, May 1842:
'My dear Mr Browning
'I was very much obliged to you, fo... | William Charles Macready | Robert Browning | 'The Cardinal and the Dog' | Manuscript: Unknown |