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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to all your married friends "Woman's Mission" a 3/6d boo...George Eliot [pseud] Sarah LewisWoman's MissionPrint: Book
1800-1849Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill, Ruskin, and Tennyson ... read Wordsworth in the col...George Eliot William WordsworthpoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849

[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]


'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Writing ...

George Eliot Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with ...George Eliot [pseud] Euripides IphigeniaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'.George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.'George Eliot [pseud] Henry Thomas BuckleHistory of Civilization in EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.George Eliot [pseud] [various]The LeaderPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Macbeth".'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] George SandLucrezia FlorianiPrint: Book
1850-1899'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.'George Eliot [pseud] 'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes  Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.'George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.'George Eliot (pseud) unknown'Kestner letters'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.'George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt[account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying D...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt[article on Meyerbeer]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie WahlverwandtschaftenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.'George Eliot (pseud) Denis DiderotLe Nevue de RameauPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably]EgmontPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'George Eliot [pseud] William Makepeace ThackerayThe Great Hoggarty DiamondPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first rate specimen of bad biographical writing'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGross CophtaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstrate specimen of bad biographical writing'George Eliot [pseud] Thomas MooreMemoirs of the Life of SheridanPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown



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