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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Began "The Scarlet Letter".'George Eliot and G.H. LewesNathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began "Tour de Jacob" again.'John Ruskin Jeremias GotthelfTour de JacobPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'.George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'.George Eliot [pseud.] William Henry PrescottHistory of Ferdinand and Isabella, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".'George Eliot [pseud.] Giovanni (?) VillaniLife of Savonarola [in his Cronica?]Print: Book
1850-1899'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann BuhleTextbook on the History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began Burnet's "Theory of the Earth". Nothing can exceed the dexterity, or liveliness, or picturesque force, of his reasoning...'Thomas Green Thomas BurnetThe theory of the earthPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...'Thomas Green George CampbellThe Philosophy of RhetoricPrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Clinton's Introduction &c.'William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1700-1799'Began Colley Cibber's "Life"; and was much delighted with his minute yet masterly account of the principal actors who figured previously to the Revolution...'Thomas Green Colley CibberApology for the Life of Colley CibberPrint: Book
1900-1945'Began Court Life by HRH The Infanta Eulalia of Spain.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Infanta Eulalia of Spain Court Life from WithinPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland"; and read the two introductory sections, containing a masterly review of our political affairs...'Thomas Green Sir John DalrympleMemoirs of Great Britain and IrelandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Dryden's "Prose Works"...'Thomas Green John DrydenProse Works, ed. MalonePrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Gibbon's account of his life; I think he is but a bad biographer having given little amiability to his own character, which is not increased by his noble commentat...Benjamin Newton Edward GibbonMiscellaneous works...with memoirs of his lifePrint: Book
1850-1899'began Hallam's Middle Ages'.George Eliot [pseud.] Henry HallamThe View of the State of Europe during the Middle ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Began Herder's "Outlines of the Philosophy of the History of Man", of which I had heard high praise;--but was soon obliged to desist. He appears to write like a great c...Thomas Green Johann Goffried HerderOutlines of a philosophy of the history of manPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it'George Eliot [pseud] Marco LastriL'Osservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'George Eliot [pseud.] Joseph PettigrewMedical SuperstitionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'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 NisardHistoire de la litt?rature fran?aisePrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoLettersPrint: Book



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