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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1850-1899'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'George Eliot [pseud] Benedictus de SpinozaEthicsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'George Eliot [pseud] Bernardo Dovizi da BibbienaLa CalandraPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Carl Eduard VehseDer Hof zu WeimarPrint: 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) Charles DickensThe Haunted ManPrint: Unknown, could have been book or serial
1850-1899'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".'George Eliot [pseud.] Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'.George Eliot [pseud.] Charles KingsleyThe Greek HeroesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness of expression about common things'.George Eliot [pseud.] Charles Lewes[compositions]Manuscript: Unknown, compositions
1850-1899'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christ...George Eliot [pseud.] Charles MontalambertThe Monks of the WestPrint: Book
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'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustin Sainte BeuveunknownPrint: Book
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] Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Villette was published on January 28th, 1853 [...] George Eliot wrote enthusiastically to Mrs Bray, "I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for...George Eliot (pseud.) Charlotte BrontëVillettePrint: 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'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been r...George Eliot [pseud] Christopher WordsworthGreecePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome'George Eliot [pseud] Conyers MiddletonDr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact...Print: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'George Eliot [pseud] Cornelis Petrus TieleOutlines of the History of ReligionPrint: 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.] Cornewall LewisAstronomy of the AncientsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.George Eliot [pseud.] Daniel RockHierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the MassPrint: Book
1850-1899'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'.George Eliot [pseud.] Daniel Rock Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The MassPrint: Book


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