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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[English history in reign of George III]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the R...George Eliot [pseud.] W Thomson[essay in Revue des Cours]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[essay on Dwarfs and Giants]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.George Eliot [pseud.] David Masson[essay on the Life of Chatterton]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] [Mrs] Grey[Etruscan subjects]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read my darling's first article on Goethe'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[first article on Goethe]Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Schrader's German Mythology'George Eliot [pseud] Eberhard Schrader[German Mythology]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1850-1899'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'.George Eliot [pseud.] Karl Friedrich August Kahnis[history of German Protestantism - title unclear]Print: Book
1850-1899'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: Unknown
1850-1899'began Pulci'.George Eliot [pseud.] [probably] Luigi Pulci[if this Pulci, poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.George Eliot [pseud] [probably] Archibald Henry Sayce[if this Sayce then work of Assyriology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.George Eliot [pseud] Audin de Rians[Introduction to Savonarola's Poems]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the R...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[Italian story]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Jewish chronicles]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work'George Eliot [pseud] [journal by either Eliot or G.H. Lewes]Manuscript: Unknown, journal
1850-1899'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[journal, 1874]Manuscript: Unknown, journal
1850-1899'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: Letter
1850-1899'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'George Eliot Francesco Petrarch[Letters]Print: Book



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