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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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.] Ben JonsonAlchemist, ThePrint: Book
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.] Richard Chenevix TrenchAn essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With...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] [unknown]Ancient GeographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]Annual Register, ThePrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] SophoclesAntigonePrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nig...George Eliot [pseud.] anonArabian Nights, story of the Little HunchbackPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownArchivo StoricoPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesAristotle, a Chapter from the History of ScienceManuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864
1850-1899'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.] Cornewall LewisAstronomy of the AncientsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.George Eliot [pseud] variousAthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] Ernest RenanAverroes et l'AverroismePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading the Bible'George Eliot [pseud.] BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesBiographical History of Philosophy, APrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'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] [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewesbook in MS, perhaps his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, book M.S.
1850-1899'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.'George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich Heinrich JacobiBriefe Uber SpinozaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'George Eliot [pseud] George John RomanesCandid Examination of Theism, APrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'.George Eliot [pseud] Voltaire (pseud.)CandidePrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'.George Eliot [pseud] Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, ThePrint: Book


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