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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fat...George Eliot (pseud) Harriet MartineauHistory of the Thirty Years PeacePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'.George Eliot (pseud) John William DraperHuman PhysiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nigh...George Eliot [pseud.] Anton Francesco DoniI MarmiPrint: 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.] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.George Eliot [pseud] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began "Il Principe".'George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo MachiavelliIl PrincipePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading the Iliad, book III'.George Eliot [pseud.] HomerIliadPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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.] HomerIliadPrint: 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.] HomerIliadPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'.George Eliot [pseud] HomerIliadPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the Odyssey" and occasionally Heine's "Reisebilder". I b...George Eliot [pseud] Homer Iliad, book IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas a KempisImitation of Christ, The (?)Print: Book
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with ...George Eliot [pseud] Euripides IphigeniaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownIsisPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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] Niccolo MachiavelliIstorie fiorentinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Italianische Reise.'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheItalianische ReisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheItalianische ReisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]


'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Writing ...

George Eliot Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".'George Eliot (pseud) George Eliot (pseud)Janet's RepentanceManuscript: MS of own work
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Georges DeppingJuifs au Moyen AgePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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