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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][books on plants]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Ancient GeographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Vegetable World, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read about Fourier and Owen'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socia...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.George Eliot [pseud] [various]The LeaderPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
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'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrTorso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der AltenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun...George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrEin Jahr in ItalienPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'.George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".'George Eliot (pseud) Agnes CatlowPopular Field BotanyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'.George Eliot [pseud] Albrecht WeberHistory of Indian Literature, ThePrint: 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[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.George Eliot [pseud] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'George Eliot [pseud] Alexander Bain[on nervous mechanism]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.George Eliot [pseud] Alexander Bain (?)unknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's standpoint'.George Eliot [pseud] Alexander HerzenLa Condizione fisica della CoscienzaPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Re-read "Laws of Operation".'George Eliot [pseud] Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps)[perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the System...Print: Unknown
1850-1899[at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.'George Eliot [pseud] Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Count of Monte CristoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".'George Eliot [pseud] Alfred Lord Tennyson[poems including 'The First Quarrel']Print: Book
1850-1899'[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Allen GrantColour Sense: its Origin and Development, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown



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