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George Eliot (pseud.)

  

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George Eliot (pseud.) : Adam Bede

'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History of Thirty Years' Peace" and Beranger. Throughly disappointed in Beranger'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Manuscript: MS of own novel

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : Romola

'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : Romola

'Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : The Spanish Gipsy

'Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourages me'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Sheet, MS of own work

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : Felix Holt

'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Manuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : Middlemarch

'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

[...]

4. The Program of anonymous readings was then proceeded with[;] members reading in the order in which they sat round the room. An interval of about 2 minutes at the end of each piece was allowed for cogitation at the end of which the reader anounced the authors name & the work from which he had read. Identification proved unexpectedly dificult[.] No one reading was identified by everyone & the highest scorer only guessed eight authors & 4 & ˝ works
Reader Author Work
E. B. Castle Plato Phaedo
M. S. W. Pollard R. Browning Pictures in Florence
E. Goadby Saml. Butler Notes
M. E. Robson Flecker Hassan
R. H. Robson Belloc Eyewitness
E. C. Stevens M. Arnold Self dependance
E. D. Brain B. Shaw Pre. to Back to Methuselah
M. Castle T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus
A. Rawlings R. Browning Pheidippides
J. Rawlings G. Eliot Middlemarch
E. B. Smith Lewis Carroll Phantasmagoria
F. E. Reynolds Tennyson Locksley Hall
S. A. Reynolds E. B. Browning Lady Geraldine’s Courtship
H. R. Smith Chas. Kingsley Westward Ho
F. E. Pollard Shelley Prometheus Unbound'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Rawlings      Print: Book

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : Middlemarch

'The storm came up on us and lightning began so we turned back. Past a grove of lemons and through a farm yard where a woman showed us her miserable baby eaten up with Malaria. As we passed the temple drenching rain and hail fell and we got in very wet. Packed read Father's article and "Middlemarch".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : Adam Bede

'I am housed in a sleeping carriage of 2 compartments of wh[ich] Mr Hatton has the other. Most comfy. Wrote my diary and read "Adam Bede".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : Middlemarch

'Still very rough. No chance of [church] service. Finished George Eliot's "Middlemarch".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook      Print: Book

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : Felix Holt

'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [George Eliot]
A Mill on the Floss – [George Eliot]
Men, Women & Guns – Sapper
A Student in Arms – Hankey.
Great Texts of the Bible – Psalms
Battles of the 19th Cent.y – Ency. Brit
The Real Kaiser –
In a German Prince's house
Life of Stanley – Autobiography
Political Hist.y of the World – Innes.
The Practice of Xt.s Presence – Fullerton
Malarial Work in Macedonia. – Willoughby & Cassidy
Bible Prophecies of the present war.
Where are we?
The lost tribes.
The Marne & after
Nelson's Hist.y of the War. XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX.
A strange story. 1 & 2.
The eyes of His glory – Harrington Lees
The Practice of Christ's Presence
I.R.M. Jan — Dec 1917. Jan — July 1918.
Advent Testimony.
The King's Highway
The Vision Splendid
All's Well.
Bunyan's Characters. White. Vols. 1 & 3
Lichnowsky.
Prophetic Outlook — Cachemaile
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
Kipling – 20 poems
In Christ – Gordon
Scenes of Clerical Life. George Eliot
Sense & Sensibility – J. Austen.
Nicholas Nickleby – Dickens.
Dombey & Son      "
Silvia's Lovers. Mrs Gaskell.
Emma. Jane Austen
Agnes Grey. Ann Bronte
Thirsting for the Springs. Jowett
Germany at Bay. Major MacFall
Sir Nigel Loring. Conan Doyle'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook      Print: Book

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : Mill on the Floss, The

'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [George Eliot]
A Mill on the Floss – [George Eliot]
Men, Women & Guns – Sapper
A Student in Arms – Hankey.
Great Texts of the Bible – Psalms
Battles of the 19th Cent.y – Ency. Brit
The Real Kaiser –
In a German Prince's house
Life of Stanley – Autobiography
Political Hist.y of the World – Innes.
The Practice of Xt.s Presence – Fullerton
Malarial Work in Macedonia. – Willoughby & Cassidy
Bible Prophecies of the present war.
Where are we?
The lost tribes.
The Marne & after
Nelson's Hist.y of the War. XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX.
A strange story. 1 & 2.
The eyes of His glory – Harrington Lees
The Practice of Christ's Presence
I.R.M. Jan — Dec 1917. Jan — July 1918.
Advent Testimony.
The King's Highway
The Vision Splendid
All's Well.
Bunyan's Characters. White. Vols. 1 & 3
Lichnowsky.
Prophetic Outlook — Cachemaile
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
Kipling – 20 poems
In Christ – Gordon
Scenes of Clerical Life. George Eliot
Sense & Sensibility – J. Austen.
Nicholas Nickleby – Dickens.
Dombey & Son      "
Silvia's Lovers. Mrs Gaskell.
Emma. Jane Austen
Agnes Grey. Ann Bronte
Thirsting for the Springs. Jowett
Germany at Bay. Major MacFall
Sir Nigel Loring. Conan Doyle'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook      Print: Book

  

George Eliot (pseud.) : The Mill on the Floss

'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the evening. This was to consist of readings of passages from books we had read during the year. F. E. was sorry but he was afraid he had read nothing recently which was intellectually suitable for the Club. (Cheers) He would however read from The Mill on the Floss. This proved to be a diverting dissertation on the Commercial Traveller who seems to have altered little since George Eliot’s day except in the article for sale for vacuum cleaners were conspicuous by their absence.
8. “The Seven Chars of Chelsea” by Celia Fremlin was the choice of Dorothea Taylor who warned us that it was an impalatable book. She must have read from the more tasty portions for we were entertained by the Margretian Charic conversation conversation which took place among the other six when the author joined their ranks and by the description of a very tasty cup of tea. Dr Taylor finished with a more serious passage on the difficulty of mistress and maid belonging to two completely different worlds.
9. Muriel Stevens read us a descriptive passage from “The Countryman”. We found that one should live in Corsica to appreciate the punctuality of our G.P.O.
10. Our adventurous evening took an astronomical turn while we heard from Howard Smith of the Herschels at Slough, their 40 foot telescope and the discovery of the planet Uranus. This was from Cecil Robert’s book “And so to Bath.”
11. Violet Clough then brought us nearer home by way of China in several extracts from “Four Part Setting” by Ann Bridges.
12. A. B. Dilks recommended us to read some or all of The Bases of Modern Science by J. W. W. Sullivan, published in the Pelican Series at 6d.
13. Rosamund Wallis found her bookmark more interesting than her book and read us an entertaining but pathetic letter from a refugee now in New York. His subject was the interesting one of the R[h]ythm of Glass Washing in [an] American Hotel.

[signed by:] R. D. L. Moore
Oct. 18. 1940.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard      Print: Book

  

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