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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'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 GipsyManuscript: Sheet, MS of own work
1850-1899'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'.George Eliot [pseud.] George Eliot (pseud.)Felix HoltManuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Janet Rawlings George Eliot (pseud.)MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'The storm came up on us and lightning began so we turned back. Past a grove of lemons and through a farm yard where a woman showed us her miserable baby eaten up with Ma...Gertrude Bell George Eliot (pseud.)MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am housed in a sleeping carriage of 2 compartments of wh[ich] Mr Hatton has the other. Most comfy. Wrote my diary and read "Adam Bede".' Gertrude Bell George Eliot (pseud.)Adam BedePrint: Book
1900-1945'Still very rough. No chance of [church] service. Finished George Eliot's "Middlemarch".'Albert Ruskin Cook George Eliot (pseud.)MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook George Eliot (pseud.)Felix HoltPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook George Eliot (pseud.)Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced t...		Francis E. Pollard George Eliot (pseud.)The Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] specially appeals, as I know so much of the literature, t...Frederic Harrison George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they began as early as Janry or February - They are a discov...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Scenes from Clerical LifePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as to give me a copy of "Adam Bede", - and I advance th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Amos BartonPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as to give me a copy of "Adam Bede", - and I advance th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899'I received the copy of "Adam Bede" which you were so kind as to send me quite safely; and I am very much obliged to you for it. - I thoroughly admire this writer's works...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899'Please say [if Marian Evans is really the author of Adam Bede...] It is a noble grand book, whoever wrote it, - but Miss Evans' life taken at the best construction, does...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899'I think I have a feeling that it is not worth while trying to write, while there are such books as Adam Bede & Scenes from Clerical Life - I set "Janet's Repentance" abo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Janet's RepentancePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earne...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Scenes from Clerical LifePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earne...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earne...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]'Amos Barton'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read it.'Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book


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