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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesLife and Works of Goethe, ThePrint: 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

[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]


'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Of Mrs G...

George Eliot Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud.] David Friedrich StraussLife of Jesus [second version]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'George Eliot [pseud.] William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1850-1899'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'.George Eliot [pseud.] William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'.George Eliot BurlamacchiLife of SavonarolaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".'George Eliot [pseud.] Giovanni (?) VillaniLife of Savonarola [in his Cronica?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] Jean Charles L?onard de SismondiLitt?rature du midi de l'EuropePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownLos Judios en EspanaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] George SandLucrezia FlorianiPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.George Eliot [pseud] Pierre BeaumarchaisM?moires contre GoezmanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Macbeth".'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'George Eliot [pseud] Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1850-1899'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.George Eliot [pseud.] W.G. TennemanManual of the History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often ...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMaxims, in Wilhelm Meisters WanderjahrePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'George Eliot [pseud.] Joseph PettigrewMedical SuperstitionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'.George Eliot [pseud.] Salomon MunkMelanges de Philosophie Juive et ArabePrint: Book


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