| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | Marcus Aurelius | [Meditations]? | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | | [Old Testament] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | | [tale of Robin Hood] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 |
'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57]. Their father, by reading ... | Thomas Thompson | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |