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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'George Eliot [pseud.] MarullusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingMinna von BarnhelmPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899''In the evening Bekker's Charikles'George Eliot [pseud] Bekker (or Becker?)ChariklesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading the Bible'George Eliot [pseud.] BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.'George Eliot (pseud) unknown[Life of Francois de Sales]Print: Book
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Frederic William Henry MyersWordsworthPrint: Book
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareTwo Gentlemen of VeronaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] John Gibson LockhartMemoirs of the Life of Sir Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] James Anthony FroudeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[correspondence with Valat]Print: Book
1850-1899'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.George Eliot [pseud.] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.George Eliot [pseud.] Theodor MommsenHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point and idiom than I expected after the first Canto or two...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[probably] MorgantePrint: 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
1850-1899'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.George Eliot [pseud] variousThe LeaderPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.George Eliot [pseud] variousAthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaDiscourse on GovernmentPrint: Book


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