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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades'George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich von SybelHistory and Literature of the CrusadesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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 Max MullerHistory of Ancient Sanskrit LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.'George Eliot [pseud] Henry Thomas BuckleHistory of Civilization in EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'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] James Anthony FroudeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century'George Eliot [pseud] George Lillie CraikHistory of English Literature and the English Lang...Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas WartonHistory of English Poetry, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] Edwin GuestHistory of English Rhythms, APrint: 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] William LeckyHistory of European Morals from Augustus to Charle...Print: Book
1850-1899'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'.George Eliot [pseud.] William Henry PrescottHistory of Ferdinand and Isabella, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Grote on the Sophists'.George Eliot [pseud] George GroteHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'.George Eliot [pseud] Albrecht WeberHistory of Indian Literature, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"'George Eliot Pierre Victor RenouardHistory of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.George Eliot [pseud.] Theodor MommsenHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.George Eliot [pseud.] George TicknorHistory of Spanish LiteraturePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] Jean Charles L?onard de SismondiHistory of the Italian RepublicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace'George Eliot [pseud] Harriet MartineauHistory of the Peace: Being a History of England f...Print: Book
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.] unknown NealeHistory of the PuritansPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'.George Eliot [pseud] John Hill Burtonhistory of the reign of Queen Anne, APrint: Book
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.] Simon OckleyHistory of the SaracensPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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