| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | John Webster | The Duchess of Malfi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Arthur became interested in "humanity" when he discovered George Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel "Lavengro" (185... | Arthur Symons | George Borrow | Lavengro | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before leaving BIdeford, he told Osborne, he had read Rossetti's poems "rapturously":
"I am mad about Rossetti eve... | Arthur Symons | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 'Sister Helen' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In June, a three-volume novel titled "Circe's Lovers" appeared, written by Leith Derwent (the pseudonym of John Veitc... | Arthur Symons | Leith Derwent [pseud.] | Circe's Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's "A Modern Instance" as "a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterl... | Arthur Symons | William Dean Howells | A Modern Instance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now he discovered "one of Swinburne's models" - Gautier: "I have just bought is "Emaux et Camees", he told Osborne, "... | Arthur Symons | Theophile Gautier | Emaux et Camees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In discussing Meredith's "Evan Harrington" (1861) in a letter to Campbell, Arthur reveals his Victorian-orientated in... | Arthur Symons | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |