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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] Rutherford RussellHistory and Heroes of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] AristophanesEcclesiazusaePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'.George Eliot [pseud] BekkerChariklesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".'George Eliot [pseud] John Mandeville (pseud.)TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of ...George Eliot Max MullerHistory of Ancient Sanskrit LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of ...George Eliot [pseud] William LeckyHistory of European Morals from Augustus to Charle...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of ...George Eliot [pseud] Herbert Spencer[probably] Principles of Psychology, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".'George Eliot [pseud.] Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'.George Eliot [pseud] [probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'Scribbled away for some hours at the Article I was writing. Altered the whole of the Introduction & then let Polly read the Paper. She approved & I felt a little excited...Polly Castieau John Buckley Castieau[article]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse of years'.George Eliot [pseud] William R. GroveOn the Correlation of Physical ForcesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] John Gibson LockhartMemoirs of the Life of Sir Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] James Anthony FroudeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[correspondence with Valat]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich August WolfProlegomena ad HomerumPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.George Eliot [pseud] Jean Paul (pseud.)Leben des Quintus FixleinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.George Eliot [pseud] George Grote[on Sicilian History]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856'George Eliot [pseud] AristotlePoeticsPrint: Book


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