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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". They are excellent. They have German industry and are...George Eliot [pseud] Meiner[lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".'George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart MillConquest in America, ThePrint: 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] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: 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'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] Georg Gottfried Gervinus[on Shakespeare]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'unable to read anything except "Times".'George Eliot [pseud] unknownTimes, ThePrint: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
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
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) Sophocles Oedipus RexPrint: Book
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'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the Odyssey" and occasionally Heine's "Reisebilder". I b...George Eliot [pseud] Homer Iliad, book IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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'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'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'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.'George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt[account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying D...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with ...George Eliot [pseud] Euripides IphigeniaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Ludovico Antonio Muratori[unknown, on the Confraternita]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Scipioni AmmiratoFamiglie Nobili FiorentiniPrint: Book
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


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