√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 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 Iphigenia Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'. George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus Agamemnon Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.' George Eliot [pseud] Henry Thomas Buckle History of Civilization in England Print : Book1850-1899 'Read "Leader" and Scherr'. George Eliot [pseud] [various] The Leader Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read "Macbeth".' George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Macbeth Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to all your married friends "Woman's Mission" a 3/6d boo... George Eliot [pseud] Sarah Lewis Woman's Mission Print : Book1800-1849 Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill, Ruskin, and Tennyson ... read Wordsworth in the col... George Eliot William Wordsworth poetry Print : Book1850-1899 'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'. George Eliot [pseud] George Sand Lucrezia Floriani Print : Book1850-1899 'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.' George Eliot [pseud] 'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.' George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.' George Eliot (pseud) unknown 'Kestner letters' Print : Unknown1850-1899 'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.' George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt [account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying D... Print : Unknown1850-1899 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.' George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt [article on Meyerbeer] Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.' George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Die Wahlverwandtschaften Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.' George Eliot (pseud) Denis Diderot Le Nevue de Rameau Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably] Egmont Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' George Eliot [pseud] William Makepeace Thackeray The Great Hoggarty Diamond Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first rate specimen of bad biographical writing' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gross Cophta Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstrate specimen of bad biographical writing' George Eliot [pseud] Thomas Moore Memoirs of the Life of Sheridan Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again ... George Eliot [pseud] possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz [if this Gotz, then poetry] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again ... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Der Burgergeneral Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' George Eliot [pseud] Benedictus de Spinoza Ethics Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'. George Eliot [pseud] Carl Eduard Vehse Der Hof zu Weimar Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Meister till 10'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine "Donna Clara" Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine poems Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Laocoon'. George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Po... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic) the Merchant of Venice, and I the first vol. of Wi... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear and lively, the thoughts acute and pregnant. It is we... George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Po... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.' George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Briefe Uber Spinoza Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'. George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Nathan der Weise Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Minna von Barnhelm Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began the Italianische Reise.' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Italianische Reise Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'. George Eliot [pseud] Fanny Lewald Wandlungen Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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 Goethe Italianische Reise Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'. George Eliot [pseud] Johannes Scherr Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte' Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson's adventure with a Russian Princess'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes [a farce] Manuscript : UnknownUnknown1850-1899 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hermann and Dorothea Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. George Eliot [pseud] various The Leader Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. George Eliot [pseud] various Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. George Eliot [pseud] Torquato Tasso unknown Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine Die Gotter im Exil Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine [poems] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [discourse on Shakespeare] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [on Spinoza] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas... George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes [draft of Life of Goethe] Manuscript : Unknown, MS of Lewes' book1850-1899 'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'. George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine De l'Allemagne Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare.... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dichtung und Wahrheit Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare.... George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine Der Salon Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud' George Eliot [pseud] Adolf Stahr Torso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der Alten Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy' George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine [on German philosophy] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often ... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maxims, in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often ... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Hamlet Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admi... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'. George Eliot [pseud] [Dr] Fischer [a pamphlet] Print : PamphletManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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 Lewes book in MS, perhaps his Life of Goethe Manuscript : Unknown, book M.S.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] William Shakespeare Twelfth Night Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Measure for Measure Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. George Eliot [pseud] unknown Hamburgische Briefe Print : UnknownManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe West-Ostliche Divan Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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 Goethe Faust Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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 Stahr Ein Jahr in Italien Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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] Georg Gottfried Gervinus [on Shakespeare] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Romische Elegien Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Venetian Epigrams Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Zuegnung", "Gedichte", Ballads Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'. George Eliot [pseud] Karl Eduard Vehse probably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Re... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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 Macaulay History of England Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes part of the MS of his Life of Goethe Manuscript : Unknown, MS of book1850-1899 'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. George Eliot [pseud] Nathaniel Wraxall Historical Memoirs Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes MS of his Life of Goethe Manuscript : Unknown, MS of book1850-1899 'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'. George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Spenser (Sonnet VIII)... I must send word of this to G... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare (and others) The Passionate Pilgrim Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Sonnets Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"' George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare The Tempest Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read "Romeo and Juliet"' George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"' George Eliot [pseud] anon Nibelungen Lied Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read "Athenaeum"' George Eliot [pseud] [n/a] The Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"' George Eliot [pseud] [n/a] The Contemporary Literature Print : UnknownManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"' George Eliot [pseud] unknown [article on Dryden in W.R. - a periodical?] Print : UnknownManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur' George Eliot [pseud] Johannes Scherr [perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur? Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began "Reineke Fuchs"' George Eliot [pseud] Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Reineke Fuchs Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began Schrader's German Mythology' George Eliot [pseud] Eberhard Schrader [German Mythology] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.' George Eliot [pseud.] Herbert Spencer The Genesis of Science Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Shakespeare Henry V Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Shakespeare Henry VIII Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Shakespeare Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3 Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Shakespeare Richard II Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'. George Eliot [pseud.] Cumming unknown Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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 II Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. George Eliot [pseud.] Sophocles Antigone Print : Book1850-1899 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. George Eliot [pseud.] P. von Bohlen Genesis Print : Book1850-1899 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. George Eliot [pseud.] Emanuel Swedenborg unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'. George Eliot [pseud.] George Meredith The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'. George Eliot [pseud.] Charles Kingsley The Greek Heroes Print : Book1850-1899 'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'. George Eliot [pseud.] Karl Friedrich August Kahnis [history of German Protestantism - title unclear] Print : Book1850-1899 'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Heinrich (?) Riehl unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] David Masson [essay on the Life of Chatterton] Print : Unknown1850-1899 '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] David Masson 'The Three Devils' Print : Unknown, probably inbook publ. 18561850-1899 '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 Trench An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With... Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. George Eliot [pseud] Pierre Beaumarchais M?moires contre Goezman Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. George Eliot [pseud] Henri Milne-Edwards [work on Zoology] Print : Book1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) Henri Milne-Edwards [work on Zoology] Print : Book1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) Harriet Martineau [article on Missions in the Westminster Review] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) various [articles in the National] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) W.H. Harvey The Sea-side Book Print : Book1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) unknown The Lover's Seat Print : Book1850-1899 'have now taken up Quatrefages again.' George Eliot (pseud) Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau [zoology] Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.' George Eliot (pseud) Honore de Balzac The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Print : Book1850-1899 'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."' George Eliot [pseud] Sophocles Ajax Print : Book1850-1899 'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace' George Eliot [pseud] Harriet Martineau History of the Peace: Being a History of England f... Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' George Eliot [pseud] Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' George Eliot [pseud] Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1850-1899 'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infidelity".' George Eliot (pseud) Sara Hennell Christianity and Infidelity Print : Book1850-1899 'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".' George Eliot (pseud) Agnes Catlow Popular Field Botany Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History... George Eliot (pseud) Sophocles Oedipus Rex Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History... George Eliot (pseud) Percy Bysshe Shelley [Poems] Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.' George Eliot (pseud) Elizabeth Gaskell Life of Charlotte Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'. George Eliot (pseud) John William Draper Human Physiology Print : Book1850-1899 'read "Emma" in the evening.' George Eliot (pseud) Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1850-1899 'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".' George Eliot (pseud) George Eliot (pseud) Janet's Repentance Manuscript : MS of own work1850-1899 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi... George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl Die Familie Print : Book1850-1899 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi... George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl Land Und Volk Print : Book1850-1899 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi... George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft Print : Book1850-1899 'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History ... George Eliot (pseud) George Eliot (pseud.) Adam Bede Manuscript : MS of own novel1850-1899 'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History ... George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus Choephorae Print : Book1850-1899 '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 : Newspaper1850-1899 '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) Charles Dickens The Haunted Man Print : Unknown, could have been book or serial1850-1899 '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) Aeschlyus Eumenides Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Martineau History of the Thirty Years Peace Print : Book1850-1899 'The "Prometheus" in the morning'. George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus [?] Prometheus Print : Book1850-1899 'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.' George Eliot (pseud) Horace The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos Print : Book1850-1899 'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".' George Eliot (pseud) Thomas Carlyle Frederick the Great Print : Book1850-1899 '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 : Newspaper1850-1899 'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of Cuvier's labours.' George Eliot (pseud) Flouren [probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier] Print : Book1850-1899 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T... George Eliot (pseud) Auguste Comte Catechism Of Positive Religion, The Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.' George Eliot (pseud) Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ, The (?) Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested in the simple, vigorous, rhythmic style.' George Eliot (pseud) John Bunyan unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.' George Eliot (pseud) unknown [Life of Francois de Sales] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'. George Eliot [pseud] Victor Hugo Ruy Blas Print : Book1850-1899 'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".' George Eliot [pseud.] Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse "Vier Neue Novellen" Print : Unknown1850-1899 '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.] Henri Marc-Bonnet "Histoire des Ordres Religieux" Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] T.A. Trollope La Beata Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] Franco Sachetti Novelle Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Sismondi History of the Italian Republics Print : Book1850-1899 'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'. George Eliot Marco Lastri L'Osservatore Fiorentino Print : Book1850-1899 'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'. George Eliot [pseud.] W.G. Tenneman Manual of the History of Philosophy Print : Book1850-1899 'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while for me to keep the work.' George Eliot [pseud.] unknown Le Moyen Age Illustre Print : Book1850-1899 'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christ... George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [article in the Athenaeum] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christ... George Eliot [pseud.] Charles Montalambert The Monks of the West Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. George Eliot [pseud] Audin de Rians [Introduction to Savonarola's Poems] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. George Eliot [pseud] [n/a] The Spectator Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. George Eliot [pseud] [n/a] The Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Read Comte on the Middle Ages' George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte [on the Middle Ages] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'. George Eliot [pseud] [n/a] Cornhill Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache' George Eliot [pseud] Anthony Trollope Orley Farm Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.' George Eliot [pseud] Ernest Renan ?tudes d?histoire religieuse Print : Book1850-1899 'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again' George Eliot [pseud] Virgil Eclogues Print : Book1850-1899 'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Buhle Textbook on the History of Philosophy Print : Book1850-1899 'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh' George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes [MS article on Mad Dogs] Manuscript : Sheet, MS of article1850-1899 'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'. George Eliot [pseud] Henry Hallam [perhaps The View of the State of Europe during th... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning' George Eliot [pseud] Edward Gibbon [on revival of Greek learning] Print : UnknownManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Savonarola's Sermons' George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola [Sermons] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it' George Eliot [pseud] Marco Lastri L'Osservatore Fiorentino Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Discourse on Government Print : Book1850-1899 '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 : Book1850-1899 '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 : Book1850-1899 '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 Doni I Marmi Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] Giovanni Boccaccio [story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron] Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] anon Arabian Nights, story of the Little Hunchback Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Jacopo Nardi (probably) unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'. George Eliot Edward Bulwer Lytton Rienzi Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.' George Eliot [pseud.] William Roscoe Life of Lorenzo de Medici Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.' George Eliot [pseud.] Francesco Sachetti [stories] Print : Book1850-1899 'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Roscoe Life of Lorenzo de Medici Print : Book1850-1899 'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'. George Eliot Burlamacchi Life of Savonarola Print : Book1850-1899 'began Pulci'. George Eliot [pseud.] [probably] Luigi Pulci [if this Pulci, poetry] Print : Book1850-1899 'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".' George Eliot [pseud.] Giovanni (?) Villani Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?] Print : Book1850-1899 'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'. George Eliot [pseud.] Giuseppe Zirardini [probably] Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimote... Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".' George Eliot [pseud.] Anna Jameson Sacred and Legendary Art Print : Book1850-1899 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.' George Eliot [pseud.] Marullus unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.' George Eliot [pseud.] Joseph Pettigrew Medical Superstitions Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'. George Eliot [pseud.] Girolamo Tiraboschi [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.' George Eliot Girolamo Tiraboschi [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'. George Eliot [pseud.] Daniel Rock Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Print : Book1850-1899 'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'. George Eliot [pseud.] Manni [Life of Burchiello] Print : Book1850-1899 'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'. George Eliot [pseud.] Anna Jameson Sacred and Legendary Art Print : Book1850-1899 'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [article in the National] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'. George Eliot [pseud.] Daniel Rock Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass Print : Book1850-1899 'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'. George Eliot [pseud.] Anna Jameson Legends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In T... Print : Book1850-1899 'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'. George Eliot [pseud.] Marchese Storia di San Marco Print : Book1850-1899 'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.' George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [article on Mormons in Westminster Review] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown Archivo Storico Print : Unknown1850-1899 '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 : Book1850-1899 'Read Ginguene in the evening'. George Eliot [pseud.] Pierre Louis Ginguene unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness of expression about common things'. George Eliot [pseud.] Charles Lewes [compositions] Manuscript : Unknown, compositions1850-1899 'Read Nerli'. George Eliot unknown Nerli Print : Book
