| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Your news and your book very much diverted me: it is an old, but very pleasant, Spanish novel.' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am now so much alone, I have leisure to pass whole days in reading, but am not at all proper for so delicate an emp... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | [dictionaries] | Print: Book |
| | 'I was very well pleased with having seen this entertainment [a marksmanship contest for the ladies of the Austrian co... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Virgil | Aeneid | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I made acquaintance yesterday with the famous poet Rousseau, who lives here [Vienna] under the peculiar protection of... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Jean-Baptiste Rousseau | odes | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Thus, dear sister, I have given you a very particular, and (I am afraid you'll think) a tedious account, of this part... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | [history] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Paul Rycaut is mistaken (as he commonly is) in calling the sect [italics] muterin [italics].' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I no longer look upon Theocritus as a romantic writer; he has only given a plain image of the way of life amongst the... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Theocritus | | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read over your Homer here with an infinite pleasure, and find several little passages explained, that I did not bef... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Iliad | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I should have told you, in the first place, that the Eastern manners give us a great light into many Scripture passag... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'They have what they call the [italics] sublime [italics], that is, a style proper for poetry, and which is the exact ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Ibrahim Pasha | Turkish Verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is most wonderfully resembling [italics] The Song of Solomon [italics], which was also addressed to a royal bride.' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | | Song of Songs (Old Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety that you do; and that Monday, setting of partr... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Your whole letter is full of mistakes from one end to the other. I see you have taken your ideas of Turkey from that ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Jean Dumont | A New Voyage to the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I hope we shall have soon the Odyssey from your happy hand, and I think I shall follow with singular pleasure the tr... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is true, the excellence of the Iliad does not depend upon his merit or dignity, but I wish, nevertheless, that Hom... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This is but too like (say you) the Arabian Tales: these embroidered napkins! and a jewel as large as a turkey's egg! ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | Arabian Tales | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have got for you, as you desire, a Turkish love-letter, which I have put in a little box, and ordered the captain o... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | unknown | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'. | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Richard Knolles | The Turkish History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'. | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am more inclined, out of a true female spirit of contradiction, to tell you the falsehood of a great part of what y... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Mr Hill | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tis true they have no public places but the bagnios...I was three days ago at one of the finest in the town, and had ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Theocritus | Idyll 18 | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'But the Armenians have no notion of transubstantiation, whatever accounts Sir Paul Rycaut gives of them (which accoun... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I can only tell you, that if you please to read Sir Paul Rycaut, you will there find a full and true account of the v... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'But I cannot forbear takng notice to you of a mistake of Gemelli (though I honour him in a much higher degree than an... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Gemelli | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I begin with telling you, that you have a true notion of the Alcoran, concerning which, the Greek priests (who are th... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | | Qu'ran | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One of my countrymen, Mr. Sandys (whose book I do not doubt you have read, as one of the best of its kind), speaking ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Mr Sandys | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Strabo calls Carthage forty miles in circuit.' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Strabo | Geographica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was glad to hear Mr. Remond's history from you, though the newspapers had given it to me [italics] en gros [italics].' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here is the work of one week of my solitude - by the many faults in it your Lordship will easily believe I spend no m... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Epictetus | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have perused the last lampoon of your ingenious friend, and am not surprised you did not find me out under the name... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Alexander Pope | unknown | Unknown |