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| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'. | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | '[Henry Buckle's "History of the Civilisation in England"] will be my fireside book at night (the only time I can read well) as soon as I have finished dear Sam Brown's v... | Harriet Martineau | Sam Brown | Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays, Scienti... | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell Eras: that Buckle has been an immense treat...Of course I agree about the grave inconsistencies, serious disproportions &c; and I doubt whether he understands Condi... | Harriet Martineau | Henry Buckle | History of the Civilisation in England | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose one ought to read [Carlyle's] "Fred": but the extracts do look such a hash of his old sayings that one has no great appetite'. | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederi... | Print: Serial / periodical | |
| 1800-1849 | 'what I write for is to thank you again for sending me your brother's [Charles Darwin's] book. As for thanking | Harriet Martineau | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selec... | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Caleb Williams - read to Jane. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | William Godwin | Things as the are, or, the Adventures of Caleb Wil... | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read memoirs of Voltaire.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Voltaire | Memoirs of the life of Voltaire written by himself | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Zadig.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Voltaire | Zadigi ou la destinee | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the life of Alfieri.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri..... | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the life of Alfieri'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri..... | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was so much reprobated.' | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.' | Jane Austen | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Louvets memoires' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Narrative of the dangers to which I have been expo... | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read aloud to Jane.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza talks of having read in a Newspaper that all the 1st Lieut:s of the Frigates whose Captains were to be sent into Line-of-Battle ships, were to be promoted to the r... | Eliza de Feuillide | [newspaper reports] | Print: Newspaper | ||
| 1800-1849 | 'Read all evening.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read aloud to Jane in the evening.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read I don't know what.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown | |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Trut... | Thomas Carter | David Hume | [Essays] | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | 'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There seem to have been more weak kings than wise ones".' | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Tobias Smollett | Complete History of England | Print: Book | |
