√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes James Boswell probably Life of Johnson Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Sydney Smith [Letters] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes William Whewell History of the Inductive Sciences Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Homer Odyssey Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Heinrich Heine Reisebilder Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We are reading Motley's last, - much surprised not to like it better. It is so diffuse and sinks so very low in its Carlylisms &c.' Harriet Martineau John Lothrop Motley Causes of the Civil War in America [probably] Print : Pamphlet1850-1899 'We are reading Scott's Life in the evenings with much enjoyment.' George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes J.G. Lockhart (probably) Life of Scott Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading the "Seven Lamps of Architecture", some part very pretty, other by writing fine [though] very nonsensical, other very powerful, and the beginnings of chap... Charlotte Mary Yonge John Ruskin Seven Lamps of Architecture Print : Book1800-1849 'We are reading the last book. - They must be two days going from Dawlish to Bath; They are nearly 100 miles apart'. Jane Austen Anna Austen [unpublished story] Manuscript : Sheet1850-1899 'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'. George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Theodor (?) Schwann unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'. George Eliot and G.H. Lewes S.T. Coleridge Wallenstein Print : Book1850-1899 'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obl... Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and Florence Thomas, Lord Macaulay Biographies Print : Book1850-1899 'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obl... Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and Florence Henry Hart Milman History of Latin Christianity Print : Book1900-1945 'We are to make roads for the next few days. Out occasionally on work parties. Those officers
not on duty all stayed in bed (valises!) and so did the men. We ate, slept... Robert Lindsay Mackay [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Unknown 1850-1899 'We are very much charmed with Lord G. Paget's account of the Crimean War, a subject I dislike so much that I am surprised to like it so much...' Emma Darwin George Augustus Frederick, Lord Paget The Light Cavalry Brigade in the Crimea Print : Book1800-1849 'We arrived wet to the skin - I read nouvelle nouvelles and write my story'. Mary Godwin Mme de Genlis Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques Print : Book1850-1899 'We began Darwin's work on "The Origin of Species" tonight. It seems not to be well written: though full of interesting matter, it is not impressive, for want of luminous... George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Charles Darwin Origin of Species, The Print : Book1800-1849 'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.' Jane Austen Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake Print : Book1700-1799 'We began to read with Mr Jeagle[sic] instead of the modern history of the abbe Milliot "The Modern Europe" made I think by Lord Chesterfield'. Wynne sisters and tutor Mr Jaegle Lord Chesterfield Modern Europe Print : Unknown1900-1945 'We belong to our time and the most we can achieve as a rule is to be a generation ahead of it; if we tear up our roots how many can exist merely on air? Yet if people wa... Molly V Hughes London Child of the Seventies, A Unknown
