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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.'George Eliot (pseud) Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'.George Eliot (pseud) John William DraperHuman PhysiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'read "Emma" in the evening.'George Eliot (pseud) Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".'George Eliot (pseud) George Eliot (pseud)Janet's RepentanceManuscript: MS of own work
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlDie FamiliePrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlLand Und VolkPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlDie Burgerliche GesellschaftPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History ...George Eliot (pseud) George Eliot (pseud.)Adam BedeManuscript: MS of own novel
1850-1899'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History ...George Eliot (pseud) AeschlyusChoephoraePrint: Book
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'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 have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.George Eliot (pseud) AeschlyusEumenidesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fat...George Eliot (pseud) Harriet MartineauHistory of the Thirty Years PeacePrint: Book
1850-1899'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus [?]PrometheusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.'George Eliot (pseud) HoraceThe Art of Poetry an Epistle to the PisosPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas CarlyleFrederick the GreatPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book "De l'Amour".'George Eliot (pseud) unknown [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of Cuvier's labours.'George Eliot (pseud) Flouren[probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier]Print: Book
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


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