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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point and idiom than I expected after the first Canto or two...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[probably] MorgantePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'George Eliot [pseud] Franco Sachetti[probably] NovellePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of ...George Eliot [pseud] Herbert Spencer[probably] Principles of Psychology, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Reading Problem III'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[probably] Problems of Life and Mind; Third Series...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] Edward Caird[probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.George Eliot [pseud.] Girolamo Tiraboschi[probably] Storia della letteratura italianaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.'George Eliot Girolamo Tiraboschi[probably] Storia della letteratura italianaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'.George Eliot [pseud.] Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot[probably] The History of France from the Earliest...Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.George Eliot [pseud.] Vespasiano da Bisticci[probably] Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV,Print: Book
1850-1899'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.'George Eliot [pseud] Merritt (Mrs)[recollections of her husband]Unknown
1850-1899'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book "De l'Amour".'George Eliot (pseud) unknown [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunt...George Eliot (pseud) anon. [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus]Print: Book
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermon on the Epistle of John]Print: Book
1850-1899'Savonarola's Sermons'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermons]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'George Eliot [pseud] Juvenal[Sixth Satire]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[Social Function...]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Juan Antonio Llorente[Spanish history]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that nothing will be a remedy for the woes of that country...George Eliot [pseud] John Bright[speech on Ireland and Church Establishment]Print: Book
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.] John Bright[Speeches]Print: Book


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