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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome'George Eliot [pseud] Amans-Alexis Monteil[presumably one of his works on history of French ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".'George Eliot [pseud.] Anna JamesonSacred and Legendary ArtPrint: Book
1850-1899'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'.George Eliot [pseud.] Anna JamesonSacred and Legendary ArtPrint: Book
1850-1899'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.George Eliot [pseud.] Anna JamesonLegends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In T...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'George Eliot [pseud] anon Nibelungen LiedPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunt...George Eliot (pseud) anon. [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache'George Eliot [pseud] Anthony TrollopeOrley FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nigh...George Eliot [pseud.] Anton Francesco DoniI MarmiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'George Eliot [pseud] Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca)[possibly a story from Le Cene]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'.George Eliot [pseud] Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren[on the XVth Century]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.George Eliot [pseud] Audin de Rians[Introduction to Savonarola's Poems]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T...George Eliot (pseud) Auguste ComteCatechism Of Positive Religion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Comte on the Middle Ages'George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[on the Middle Ages]Print: 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] Auguste ComteThe Positive Philosophy of Auguste ComtePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] Auguste ComteSyst?me de politique positivePrint: 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'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] Ben JonsonAlchemist, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] Ben JonsonVolponePrint: Book
1850-1899'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book


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