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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] P. von BohlenGenesisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.George Eliot [pseud.] Pasquale VillariunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".'George Eliot [pseud.] Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse"Vier Neue Novellen"Print: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History...George Eliot (pseud) Percy Bysshe Shelley[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Philip Wentworth BuckhamTheatre of the GreeksPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.George Eliot [pseud] Pierre BeaumarchaisM?moires contre GoezmanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Ginguene in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud.] Pierre Louis GingueneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'George Eliot [pseud] Pierre Louis Ginguene[possibly] Histoire litteraire d'ItaliePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"'George Eliot Pierre Victor RenouardHistory of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again ...George Eliot [pseud] possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz[if this Gotz, then poetry]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.George Eliot [pseud.] Richard Chenevix TrenchAn essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] Rutherford RussellHistory and Heroes of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'.George Eliot [pseud.] Salomon MunkMelanges de Philosophie Juive et ArabePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Samuel BamfordPassages in the Life of a RadicalPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fa...George Eliot [pseud] Samuel DicksonFallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infidelity".'George Eliot (pseud) Sara HennellChristianity and InfidelityPrint: Book
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
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Scipioni AmmiratoFamiglie Nobili FiorentiniPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.George Eliot [pseud.] Simon OckleyHistory of the SaracensPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."'George Eliot [pseud] Sophocles AjaxPrint: Book


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