√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 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 : Book1850-1899 'Looked through Machiavelli's works'. George Eliot [pseud.] Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (probably) Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'. George Eliot [pseud.] Pasquale Villari unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'. George Eliot [pseud.] Ludovico Antonio Muratori unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence' George Eliot [pseud] Poliziano Letters Print : Book1850-1899 'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence' George Eliot [pseud] Donato Giannotti Della repubblica fiorentina Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"' George Eliot [pseud] [unknown] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"' George Eliot [pseud] [n/a] [Newspaper] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters' George Eliot [pseud] Cicero De Officiis Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters' George Eliot Francesco Petrarch [Letters] Print : Book1850-1899 'to the London Library where I looked through Selden's "Titles of Honour"' George Eliot [pseud] John Selden Titles of Honour Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome' George Eliot [pseud] Amans-Alexis Monteil [presumably one of his works on history of French ... Print : Book1850-1899 'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic' George Eliot [pseud] Michelangelo Buonarotti the Younger La Tancia Print : Book1850-1899 'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic' George Eliot [pseud] Pierre Louis Ginguene [possibly] Histoire litteraire d'Italie Print : Book1850-1899 'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century' George Eliot [pseud] George Lillie Craik History of English Literature and the English Lang... Print : Book1850-1899 '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 [pseud] Juvenal [a satire] Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Epictetus Enchiridion Print : Book1850-1899 '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 [pseud] Luigi Pulci [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 '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 [pseud] [unknown] Canti Carnascialeschi Print : Book1850-1899 '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 [pseud] Manni Veglie Piacevole Print : Book1850-1899 '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 [pseud] Theocritus [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino' George Eliot [pseud] Juvenal [Sixth Satire] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino' George Eliot [pseud] Marco Lastri Osservatore Fiorentino Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel' George Eliot [pseud] Goldwin Smith [answer to Mansel] Print : Book1850-1899 ''In the evening Bekker's Charikles' George Eliot [pseud] Bekker (or Becker?) Charikles Print : Book1850-1899 'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence' George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi [History of Florence] Print : Book1850-1899 'There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...' George Eliot [pseud] Humphrey Hody De Graecis Illustribus Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Ammirato Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini Print : Book1850-1899 '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] Ludovico Antonio Muratori [unknown, on the Confraternita] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo' George Eliot [pseud] Franco Sachetti [probably] Novelle Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo' George Eliot [pseud] Francesco Filelfo [Letters] Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again' George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi [History of Florence] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica' George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola De Veritate Profetica Print : Book1850-1899 'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome' George Eliot [pseud] Conyers Middleton Dr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact... Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"' George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola Compendium Revelationum Print : Book1850-1899 'Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'. George Eliot [pseud] Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren [on the XVth Century] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Politian's Lamia' George Eliot [pseud] Poliziano Lamia Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the Malmantile' George Eliot [pseud] Malmantile [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente' George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci [unknown -novel] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente' George Eliot [pseud] Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca) [possibly a story from Le Cene] Print : Book1850-1899 '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] Emile Du Bois Reymond [book on Johannes Mueler] Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Machiavelli Istorie fiorentine Print : Book1850-1899 '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] [n/a] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".' George Eliot [pseud] [unknown] [chronicle of conquest of the Morea] Print : Book1850-1899 'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece"' George Eliot George Finlay A History of Greece Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo Machiavelli La Mandragola Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' George Eliot [pseud] Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena La Calandra Print : Book1850-1899 'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'. George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.) Romola Manuscript : Sheet, MS of novel1850-1899 '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] Morgante Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".' George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart Mill Conquest in America, The Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades' George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich von Sybel History and Literature of the Crusades Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable things a very noble expression of what I believe to ... George Eliot [pseud] Elizabeth Barrett Browning Casa Guidi Windows Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 [at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.' George Eliot [pseud] Alexandre Dumas (pere) The Count of Monte Cristo Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been r... George Eliot [pseud] unknown [books on medieval Greece] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been r... George Eliot [pseud] Christopher Wordsworth Greece Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'. George Eliot [pseud] Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard Poetes Latins de la Decadence Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'. George Eliot [pseud] Juvenal [unknown] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". They are excellent. They have German industry and are... George Eliot [pseud] Meiner [lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'. George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola Processi Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio' George Eliot [pseud] Giovanni Boccaccio Decameron Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began "Il Principe".' George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo Machiavelli Il Principe Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion... George Eliot [pseud] Poliziano Stanze Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion... George Eliot [pseud] Poliziano Orfeo Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' George Eliot [pseud] Dante Alighieri Purgatorio Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola Compendium Revelationum Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'. George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.) Romola Manuscript : Sheet, MS of novel1850-1899 'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight' George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes Aristotle, a Chapter from the History of Science Manuscript : Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 18641850-1899 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. George Eliot [pseud] Theodor Mommsen [one of his Roman history works] Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. George Eliot [pseud] William Wetmore Story Roba di Roma Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. George Eliot [pseud] Henry George Liddell A History of Rome Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity' George Eliot [pseud] Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly] [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourages me'. George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.) The Spanish Gipsy Manuscript : Sheet, MS of own work1850-1899 'I read Prescott again and made notes' George Eliot [pseud] [probably] William Prescott [unknown] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus [unknown] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' George Eliot [pseud] Philip Wentworth Buckham Theatre of the Greeks Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' George Eliot [pseud] Julius Leopold Klein Geschichte des Dramas Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'. George Eliot [pseud] Samuel Bamford Passages in the Life of a Radical Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'. George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart Mill Principles of Political Economy Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'. George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. George Eliot [pseud] [n/a] Annual Register, The Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. George Eliot [pseud] [possibly] William Blackstone [Commentaries on the laws of England?] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.' George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [English history in reign of George III] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.' George Eliot [pseud.] William Shakespeare King John Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'. George Eliot [pseud.] Aeschylus unknown Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'. George Eliot [pseud.] George Henry Lewes [article on Grote's Plato] Manuscript : Unknown, ms of article1850-1899 'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.' George Eliot [pseud.] Aeschylus Agamemnon Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".' George Eliot [pseud.] Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu Contes populaires des anciens Bretons Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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] Fawcett Economic Condition of the Working Classes Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] John Stuart Mill On Liberty Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] David Friedrich Strauss Life of Jesus [second version] Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Neale History of the Puritans Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading the Bible ' George Eliot [pseud.] Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'began Hallam's Middle Ages'. George Eliot [pseud.] Henry Hallam The View of the State of Europe during the Middle ... Print : Book1850-1899 'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'. George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas Babington Macaulay [perhaps] History of England [?] Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. George Eliot [pseud.] John Stuart Mill A System of Logic Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. George Eliot [pseud.] Theocritus unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [English History and Law] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'. George Eliot [pseud.] George Eliot (pseud.) Felix Holt Manuscript : Unknown, MS of own novel1850-1899 '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 Bouterwek Geschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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.] Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi [unknown - on Spain] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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.] Georges Bernard Depping [unknown - on Spain] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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 : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'. George Eliot [pseud.] Georges Depping Juifs au Moyen Age Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'. George Eliot [pseud.] Geoffrey Chaucer [unknown] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [works on music and acoustics] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'. George Eliot [pseud.] Ernest Renan Histoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'. George Eliot [pseud.] George Ticknor History of Spanish Literature Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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.] Cornewall Lewis Astronomy of the Ancients Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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 Ockley History of the Saracens Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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.] unknown [books on Astronomical Geography] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 '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.] unknown [ballads on Bernardo del Carpio] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown Los Judios en Espana Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas Percy (ed.) Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown Isis Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Reading the Iliad, book III'. George Eliot [pseud.] Homer Iliad Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Henry Prescott History of Ferdinand and Isabella, The Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' George Eliot [pseud.] Ernest Renan Averroes et l'Averroisme Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' George Eliot [pseud.] Eliakim Carmoly Histoire des M?decins Juifs Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' George Eliot [pseud.] unknown First Principles Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'. George Eliot [pseud.] George Henry Lewes [letter] Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe '. George Eliot [pseud.] Salomon Munk Melanges de Philosophie Juive et Arabe Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown Guillemin [presumably astronomy text] Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'. George Eliot [pseud.] John Lubbock Prehistoric Times Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] Lucretius De Rerum Natura Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] Homer Iliad Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] John Milton Samson Agonistes Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Warton History of English Poetry, The Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] George Grote unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '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] Marcus Aurelius unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] Dante Alighieri La Vita Nuova Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] Auguste Comte Syst?me de politique positive Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Guest History of English Rhythms, A Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] Frederick Denison Maurice Conscience: Lectures On Casuistry Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] unknown [philology books] Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] Homer Iliad Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Spenser Faerie Queene, The Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] [Mrs] Grey [Etruscan subjects] Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] George Dennis Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, The Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] Ben Jonson Alchemist, The Print : Book1850-1899 '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.] Ben Jonson Volpone Print : Book1850-1899 '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 : Book1850-1899 '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.] George Gordon Lord Byron Don Juan Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the R... George Eliot [pseud.] John Bright [4th speech on India] Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the R... George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [Italian story] Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the R... George Eliot [pseud.] unknown Spectator, The Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the R... George Eliot [pseud.] W Thomson [essay in Revue des Cours] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '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 Manzoni I Promessi Sposi Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Mommsen History of Rome Print : Book1850-1899 'The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the later'. George Eliot [pseud] Matthew Arnold [poems] Print : Book1850-1899 '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 : Book1850-1899 '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] [n/a] Spectator, The Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' George Eliot [pseud] Hermann von Helmholtz [book on music] Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' George Eliot [pseud] [unknown] [books on plants] Print : Book1850-1899 '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 [pseud] Lucretius De Rerum Natura Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Victor Hugo L'Homme Qui Rit Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Hillern Ein Arzt der Seele Print : Book1850-1899 'Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Comines, Villon' George Eliot [pseud] Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard Histoire de la litt?rature fran?aise Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu... George Eliot [pseud] [unknown] Ancient Geography Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu... George Eliot [pseud] Smith Universal History Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu... George Eliot [pseud] Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu... George Eliot [pseud] [unknown] Vegetable World, The Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu... George Eliot [pseud] Michael Drayton Nymphidia, The Court of Fairy Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu... George Eliot [pseud] Michael Drayton Polyolbion Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu... George Eliot [pseud] George Grote [probably] History of Greece Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes' George Eliot [pseud] Louis Reybaud Etudes sur les r?formateurs ou socialistes moderne... Print : Book1850-1899 'I read about Fourier and Owen' George Eliot [pseud] [unknown] [on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socia... Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte' George Eliot [pseud] Plato Republic Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte' George Eliot [pseud] Emile Littre [on Comte] Print : Book1850-1899 '[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 Theocritus 22nd Idyll Print : Book1850-1899 '[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] Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 '[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 Dickson Fallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal ... Print : Book1850-1899 'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'. George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Sonnets Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"' George Eliot Pierre Victor Renouard History of Medicine Print : Book1850-1899 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Culen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine e... George Eliot [pseud] unknown [Encyclopaedia re medical colleges] Print : Book1850-1899 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ... George Eliot [pseud] unknown [Life of or by William Cullen] Print : Book1850-1899 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ... George Eliot [pseud] Rutherford Russell History and Heroes of Medicine Print : Book1850-1899 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ... George Eliot [pseud] Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae Print : Book1850-1899 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Macbeth Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'. George Eliot [pseud] Bekker Charikles Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".' George Eliot [pseud] John Mandeville (pseud.) Travels Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Muller History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Lecky History of European Morals from Augustus to Charle... Print : Book1850-1899 '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, The Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".' George Eliot [pseud.] Charles Dickens Edwin Drood Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'. George Eliot [pseud] [probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti [poems] Print : Book1850-1899 'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse of years'. George Eliot [pseud] William R. Grove On the Correlation of Physical Forces Print : Book1850-1899 '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] John Gibson Lockhart Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Froude History of England Print : Book1850-1899 '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] Auguste Comte [correspondence with Valat] Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'. George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich August Wolf Prolegomena ad Homerum Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'. George Eliot [pseud] Jean Paul (pseud.) Leben des Quintus Fixlein Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'. George Eliot [pseud] George Grote [on Sicilian History] Print : Book1850-1899 'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856' George Eliot [pseud] Aristotle Poetics Print : Book1850-1899 'Began to read "Principles of Success in Literature".' George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes "Principles of Success in Literature Print : Book1850-1899 'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes [Social Function...] Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes Physical Basis of Mind, The Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work' George Eliot [pseud] [journal by either Eliot or G.H. Lewes] Manuscript : Unknown, journal
