√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".' George Eliot [pseud.] Charles Dickens Edwin Drood Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century' George Eliot [pseud] George Lillie Craik History of English Literature and the English Lang... Print : Book1850-1899 '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 : Unknown1850-1899 '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] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Der Burgergeneral Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine poems Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes [letters to George Eliot] Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'I read Prescott again and made notes' George Eliot [pseud] [probably] William Prescott [unknown] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Spenser (Sonnet VIII)... I must send word of this to G... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare (and others) The Passionate Pilgrim Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.' George Eliot (pseud) unknown 'Kestner letters' Print : Unknown1850-1899 'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'. George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.) Romola Manuscript : Sheet, MS of novel1850-1899 'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'. George Eliot [pseud.] George Henry Lewes [letter] Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [article in the National] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infidelity".' George Eliot (pseud) Sara Hennell Christianity and Infidelity Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes part of the MS of his Life of Goethe Manuscript : Unknown, MS of book1850-1899 'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.' George Eliot (pseud) Elizabeth Gaskell Life of Charlotte Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that nothing will be a remedy for the woes of that country... George Eliot [pseud] John Bright [speech on Ireland and Church Establishment] Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that nothing will be a remedy for the woes of that country... George Eliot [pseud] [n/a] Spectator, The Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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, compositions1850-1899 'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades' George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich von Sybel History and Literature of the Crusades Print : BookManuscript : Unknown
