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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include speech about Christmas by Dolly Winthrop in chapter 10 of George Eliot, Silas Marner, which follow...Edward Morgan Forster George EliotSilas MarnerPrint: Book
1900-1945From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940: 'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last night with disgust and indignation, but with no intensi...Edward Morgan Forster George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'My desultory and totally unorganised reading of George Eliot, Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Carlyle, Emerson and Merejkowski made little impression upon this routine, though t...Vera Brittain George EliotRomolaUnknown
1900-1945'Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:'Vera Brittain George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (...Alfred Tennyson George EliotAdam BedePrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (...Alfred Tennyson George EliotScenes of Clerical LifePrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (...Alfred Tennyson George EliotSilas MarnerPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (...Alfred Tennyson George EliotRomolaPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He ...Zoe Procter George EliotThe Spanish GipsyPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He ...Zoe Procter George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Book
1900-1945'various readings from George Eliot in character & otherwise were then given by members bringing a very pleasant meeting to a close.'members of XII Book ClubGeorge Eliot Print: Book
1850-1899'Did you − I forget − did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel Deronda himself? − the Prince of Prigs: the lite...Robert Louis Stevenson George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Book
1900-1945'So we lay all day in the rolling swell, fair in the blast of the dried fish; reading John vii, Odyssey xxiv, a mutilated copy of "Middlemarch" and late man pages of the ...Ronald Storrs George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945Three months in Asolo had passed in a sort of dream, a little harassed by the floods of people my mother poured over me in my enfeebled state. I had spent long days...Freya Stark George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945Three months in Asolo had passed in a sort of dream, a little harassed by the floods of people my mother poured over me in my enfeebled state. I had spent long days...Herbert Young George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1850-1899'G. Elliot, The Mill on the Floss'Sarah Good George EliotThe Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1850-1899'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".'George Eliot (pseud) George Eliot (pseud)Janet's RepentanceManuscript: MS of own work
1850-1899'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 BedeManuscript: MS of own novel
1850-1899'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.)RomolaManuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
1850-1899'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.)RomolaManuscript: Sheet, MS of novel


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