√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) Harriet Martineau [article on Missions in the Westminster Review] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.' George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [article on Mormons in Westminster Review] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Made list of his articles, and read His article on Philosophy in France, 1843' George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes [article on Philosophy in France] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) various [articles in the National] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [ballads on Bernardo del Carpio] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. George Eliot [pseud] Frederick Pollock [biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford] Print : Book1850-1899 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. George Eliot [pseud] Homer [book IV - of Iliad?] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'. George Eliot [pseud] Emile Du Bois Reymond [book on Johannes Mueler] Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' George Eliot [pseud] Hermann von Helmholtz [book on music] Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [books on Astronomical Geography] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been r... George Eliot [pseud] unknown [books on medieval Greece] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' George Eliot [pseud] [unknown] [books on plants] Print : Book1850-1899 'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".' George Eliot [pseud] [unknown] [chronicle of conquest of the Morea] Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. George Eliot [pseud] [possibly] William Blackstone [Commentaries on the laws of England?] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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 '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] Auguste Comte [correspondence with Valat] Print : Book1850-1899 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [discourse on Shakespeare] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas... George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes [draft of Life of Goethe] Manuscript : Unknown, MS of Lewes' book1850-1899 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Culen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine e... George Eliot [pseud] unknown [Encyclopaedia re medical colleges] Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [English History and Law] Print : Book
