√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe West-Ostliche Divan Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.' George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun... George Eliot [pseud] Adolf Stahr Ein Jahr in Italien Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun... George Eliot [pseud] Georg Gottfried Gervinus [on Shakespeare] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Romische Elegien Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Venetian Epigrams Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare A Winter's Tale Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Zuegnung", "Gedichte", Ballads Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'. George Eliot [pseud] Karl Eduard Vehse probably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Re... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus est... Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown] [dramatists' works] Print : Book1850-1899 'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came away and read Shakspeare (sic) at home'. George Eliot [Prof] Gruppe Ferdusi Manuscript : UnknownUnknown1850-1899 'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came away and read Shakspeare (sic) at home'. George Eliot and G.H. Lewes William Shakespeare unknown Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'G. read Richard III'. George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare Richard III Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes part of the MS of his Life of Goethe Manuscript : Unknown, MS of book1850-1899 'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.' Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown] [Roman History] Print : Book1850-1899 'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last... Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. George Eliot [pseud] Nathaniel Wraxall Historical Memoirs Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes MS of his Life of Goethe Manuscript : Unknown, MS of book
