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| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [journal, 1874] | Manuscript: Unknown, journal | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [various works Eliot was revising] | Manuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my darling's book on the Spanish Drama' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Spanish Drama, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my darling's first article on Goethe' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [first article on Goethe] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Problem III' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [probably] Problems of Life and Mind; Third Series... | Manuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'unable to read anything except "Times".' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Times, The | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe' | George Eliot [pseud] | W. Kingdom Clifford | First and Last Castrophe, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | [on socialism] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Spencer's Psychology' | George Eliot [pseud] | Herbert Spencer | Principles of Psychology | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'read on the colour-sense' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [on colour sense] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn' | George Eliot [pseud] | Hugo Magnus | Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung des Farbensinnes | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | '[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Allen Grant | Colour Sense: its Origin and Development, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'read my darling's M.S. on Language' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [on language] | Manuscript: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Bain | [on nervous mechanism] | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's' | George Eliot [pseud] | Foster | [on nervous mechanism] | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Made list of his articles, and read His article on Philosophy in France, 1843' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [article on Philosophy in France] | Print: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Re-read "Laws of Operation".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps) | [perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the System... | Print: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's standpoint'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Herzen | La Condizione fisica della Coscienza | Print: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [essay on Dwarfs and Giants] | Print: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Bain (?) | unknown | Print: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve | unknown | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | [book IV - of Iliad?] | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Michael Foster | Textbook of Physiology | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | [probably] History of Greece | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Biographical History of Philosophy, A | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Life and Works of Goethe, The | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frederick Pollock | [biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford] | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Edward Caird | [probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte... | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Life and Works of Goethe | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Sully | [article on G.H. Lewes] | Manuscript: proof of article | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Voltaire (pseud.) | Candide | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Plato - Republic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Plato | Republic,The | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Merritt (Mrs) | [recollections of her husband] | Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Hebrew texts | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Algebra] | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Purgatorio'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Grote on the Sophists'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | History of Greece | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [letters to George Eliot] | Manuscript: Letter | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Albrecht Weber | History of Indian Literature, The | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Monier Williams' | George Eliot [pseud] | Monier Monier Williams | [presumably work on Sanskrit] | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | George John Romanes | Candid Examination of Theism, A | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Cornelis Petrus Tiele | Outlines of the History of Religion | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'. | George Eliot [pseud] | John Hill Burton | history of the reign of Queen Anne, A | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frances Anne Kemble | Records of a Girlhood | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Jewish chronicles] | Print: Unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Hebrew Migration" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical with Mount Hor'. | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Hebrew Migration from Egypt, The | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Prose Edda, The | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Malthus | unknown | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] Archibald Henry Sayce | [if this Sayce then work of Assyriology] | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Le Rond D'Alembert | Discours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?die | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [unknown] | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Hermann and Dorothea | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alfred Lord Tennyson | [poems including 'The First Quarrel'] | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Margaret Oliphant | My faithful Johnny | Print: Serial / periodical | |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frederic William Henry Myers | Wordsworth | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Villette was published on January 28th, 1853 [...] George Eliot wrote enthusiastically to Mrs Bray, "I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for... | George Eliot (pseud.) | Charlotte Brontë | Villette | Print: Book | |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book | |
| 1850-1899 | [Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:] 'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Of Mrs G... | George Eliot | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book | |
