√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend o... | [friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon | Annabella Milbanke | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, be... | Willie anon | Charles Mackay (ed) | A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Week... | [a Lancashire man] anon | | The British Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line, telling us he had heard Cobbett's register read lately, where... | [A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line] anon | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to '_____', from Albano, April 1861 [re Remains of Roman theatre at Tusculum]:
'T... | | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lay of the Battle of Lake Regillus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady... | Lady [anon] | Jane Scott | Trevelyan | Print: Book |