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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstrate specimen of bad biographical writing'George Eliot [pseud] Thomas MooreMemoirs of the Life of SheridanPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] John Gibson LockhartMemoirs of the Life of Sir Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingMinna von BarnhelmPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesMS of his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, MS of book
1850-1899'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'.George Eliot [pseud] Margaret OliphantMy faithful JohnnyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingNathan der WeisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Nerli'.George Eliot unknownNerliPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'George Eliot [pseud] anon Nibelungen LiedPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] Franco SachettiNovellePrint: 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] Michael DraytonNymphidia, The Court of FairyPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'George Eliot [pseud] HomerOdysseyPrint: 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'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.] John Stuart MillOn LibertyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse of years'.George Eliot [pseud] William R. GroveOn the Correlation of Physical ForcesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion...George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoOrfeoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache'George Eliot [pseud] Anthony TrollopeOrley FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'George Eliot [pseud] Marco LastriOsservatore FiorentinoPrint: 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'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 Lewespart of the MS of his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, MS of book
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Samuel BamfordPassages in the Life of a RadicalPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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