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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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] FawcettEconomic Condition of the Working ClassesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".'George Eliot [pseud.] Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably]EgmontPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'George Eliot Willhelmine von HillernEin Arzt der SeelePrint: Book
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun...George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrEin Jahr in ItalienPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'read "Emma" in the evening.'George Eliot (pseud) Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot EpictetusEnchiridionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'George Eliot [pseud] Benedictus de SpinozaEthicsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes'George Eliot [pseud] Louis ReybaudEtudes sur les r?formateurs ou socialistes moderne...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.George Eliot (pseud) AeschlyusEumenidesPrint: 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.] Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fa...George Eliot [pseud] Samuel DicksonFallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Scipioni AmmiratoFamiglie Nobili FiorentiniPrint: Book
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'.George Eliot [pseud.] George Eliot (pseud.)Felix HoltManuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel
1850-1899'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe'George Eliot [pseud] W. Kingdom CliffordFirst and Last Castrophe, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] unknownFirst PrinciplesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas CarlyleFrederick the GreatPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] P. von BohlenGenesisPrint: Book
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.] Friedrich BouterwekGeschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown


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