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George Eliot [pseud]
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Sarah Lewis : Woman's Mission
In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to all your married friends "Woman's Mission" a 3/6d book and ... the most philosophical and masterly on the subject I ever read or glanced over' ...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes :
'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown
Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve : [unknown]
'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
William Makepeace Thackeray : The Great Hoggarty Diamond
'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Gross Cophta
'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first rate specimen of bad biographical writing'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Thomas Moore : Memoirs of the Life of Sheridan
'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstrate specimen of bad biographical writing'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz : [if this Gotz, then poetry]
'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again in the evening.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Der Burgergeneral
'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again in the evening.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Benedictus de Spinoza : Ethics
'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Carl Eduard Vehse : Der Hof zu Weimar
'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Heinrich Heine : "Donna Clara"
'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Meister till 10'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Heinrich Heine : poems
'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry
'Read Laocoon'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic) the Merchant of Venice, and I the first vol. of Wilhelm Meister'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry
'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear and lively, the thoughts acute and pregnant. It is well adapted to rouse an interest both in the classics and in the study of art'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi : Briefe Uber Spinoza
'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Nathan der Weise
'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Minna von Barnhelm
''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Italianische Reise
'Began the Italianische Reise.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Fanny Lewald : Wandlungen
'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Italianische Reise
'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johannes Scherr : Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'
'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : [a farce]
'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson's adventure with a Russian Princess'.
UnknownCentury: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown
Euripides : Iphigenia
'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with Lady Anne. Then Shylock, which G. afterwards read... Finished 1st act of "Iphigenia"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Hermann and Dorothea
'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
various : The Leader
'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
various : Athenaeum
'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
Torquato Tasso : unknown
'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre
'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Heinrich Heine : Die Gotter im Exil
'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Heinrich Heine : [poems]
'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : [discourse on Shakespeare]
'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the passage in which he says he cannot presume to say that he thoroughly understands Spinoza. After coffee read aloud G's M.S. of the Leipsic and beginning of the Strasburg Period. G. finished Lear - sublimely powerful!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : [on Spinoza]
'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the passage in which he says he cannot presume to say that he thoroughly understands Spinoza. After coffee read aloud G's M.S. of the Leipsic and beginning of the Strasburg Period. G. finished Lear - sublimely powerful!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : [draft of Life of Goethe]
'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the passage in which he says he cannot presume to say that he thoroughly understands Spinoza. After coffee read aloud G's M.S. of the Leipsic and beginning of the Strasburg Period. G. finished Lear - sublimely powerful!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of Lewes' book
William Shakespeare : The Taming of the Shrew
'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Heinrich Heine : De l'Allemagne
'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Dichtung und Wahrheit
'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Heinrich Heine : Der Salon
'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Adolf Stahr : Torso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der Alten
'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Heinrich Heine : [on German philosophy]
'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Maxims, in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre
'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespeare's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespeare's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel
'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespear's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
[Dr] Fischer : [a pamphlet]
'Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : book in MS, perhaps his Life of Goethe
'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, book M.S.
William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night
'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure
'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
unknown : Hamburgische Briefe
'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : West-Ostliche Divan
'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust
'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 found it unsatisfactory. Read some of Stahr's "Ein Jahr in Italien". The description of Florence excellent'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Adolf Stahr : Ein Jahr in Italien
'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 found it unsatisfactory. Read some of Stahr's "Ein Jahr in Italien". The description of Florence excellent'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Georg Gottfried Gervinus : [on Shakespeare]
'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 found it unsatisfactory. Read some of Stahr's "Ein Jahr in Italien". The description of Florence excellent'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Romische Elegien
'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Venetian Epigrams
'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : "Zuegnung", "Gedichte", Ballads
'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Karl Eduard Vehse : probably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Reformation
'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England
'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : part of the MS of his Life of Goethe
'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book
Nathaniel Wraxall : Historical Memoirs
'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : MS of his Life of Goethe
'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book
William Shakespeare : Venus and Adonis
'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare (and others) : The Passionate Pilgrim
'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Spenser (Sonnet VIII)... I must send word of this to G. who has written in his Goethe that Shakspeare has left no line in praise of a contemporary. [inserted later: (G. writes that this sonnet is Barnwell's)]'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Two Gentlemen of Verona
'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging pardon where he has no longer any hope of gaining his ends, says: "All that was mine in Silvia I give the"! - Silvia standing by'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Sonnets
'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging pardon where he has no longer any hope of gaining his ends, says: "All that was mine in Silvia I give the"! - Silvia standing by'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
[various] : The Leader
'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Macbeth
'Read "Macbeth".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
'Read "Romeo and Juliet"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
anon : Nibelungen Lied
'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
[n/a] : The Athenaeum
'Read "Athenaeum"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
[n/a] : The Contemporary Literature
'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
unknown : [article on Dryden in W.R. - a periodical?]
'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
Johannes Scherr : [perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur?
'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe : Reineke Fuchs
'Began "Reineke Fuchs"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Eberhard Schrader : [German Mythology]
'Began Schrader's German Mythology'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Homer : Iliad, book II
'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 the second Book of "the Iliad" in Greek this morning'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Sand : Lucrezia Floriani
'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
David Masson : 'The Three Devils'
'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856
Pierre Beaumarchais : M?moires contre Goezman
'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Henri Milne-Edwards : [work on Zoology]
'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Sophocles : Ajax
'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Harriet Martineau : History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854
'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Edmund Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France
'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Aeschlyus : Agamemnon
'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Henry Thomas Buckle : History of Civilization in England
'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Audin de Rians : [Introduction to Savonarola's Poems]
'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown
[n/a] : The Spectator
'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : The Athenaeum
'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
Auguste Comte : [on the Middle Ages]
'Read Comte on the Middle Ages'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine
'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
Anthony Trollope : Orley Farm
'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Ernest Renan : ?tudes d?histoire religieuse
'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Virgil : Eclogues
'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Johann Buhle : Textbook on the History of Philosophy
'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Henry Lewes : [MS article on Mad Dogs]
'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of article
Henry Hallam : [perhaps The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages]
'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Edward Gibbon : [on revival of Greek learning]
'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
Girolamo Savonarola : [Sermons]
'Savonarola's Sermons'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Girolamo Savonarola : Discourse on Government
'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Girolamo Savonarola : [Sermon on the Epistle of John]
'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Girolamo Savonarola : [Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus]
'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Marco Lastri : L'Osservatore Fiorentino
'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Poliziano : Letters
'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Donato Giannotti : Della repubblica fiorentina
'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[unknown] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : [Newspaper]
'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Newspaper
Cicero : De Officiis
'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
John Selden : Titles of Honour
'to the London Library where I looked through Selden's "Titles of Honour"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Amans-Alexis Monteil : [presumably one of his works on history of French civilisation]
'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Michelangelo Buonarotti the Younger : La Tancia
'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Pierre Louis Ginguene : [possibly] Histoire litteraire d'Italie
'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Lillie Craik : History of English Literature and the English Language
'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Juvenal : [a satire]
'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Luigi Pulci : [unknown]
'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[unknown] : Canti Carnascialeschi
'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Manni : Veglie Piacevole
'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Theocritus : [unknown]
'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Juvenal : [Sixth Satire]
'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Marco Lastri : Osservatore Fiorentino
'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Goldwin Smith : [answer to Mansel]
'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Bekker (or Becker?) : Charikles
''In the evening Bekker's Charikles'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Benedetto Varchi : [History of Florence]
'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Humphrey Hody : De Graecis Illustribus
'There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Scipioni Ammirato : Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini
'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Ludovico Antonio Muratori : [unknown, on the Confraternita]
'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Franco Sachetti : [probably] Novelle
'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Francesco Filelfo : [Letters]
'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Benedetto Varchi : [History of Florence]
'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Girolamo Savonarola : De Veritate Profetica
'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Conyers Middleton : Dr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact Conformity Between Popery and Paganism
'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Girolamo Savonarola : Compendium Revelationum
'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren : [on the XVth Century]
'Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Poliziano : Lamia
'Read Politian's Lamia'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Malmantile : [unknown]
'Read the Malmantile'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Luigi Pulci : [unknown -novel]
'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca) : [possibly a story from Le Cene]
'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Emile Du Bois Reymond : [book on Johannes Mueler]
'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Niccolo Machiavelli : Istorie fiorentine
'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
[unknown] : [chronicle of conquest of the Morea]
'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Niccolo Machiavelli : La Mandragola
'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena : La Calandra
'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Eliot (pseud.) : Romola
'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
Luigi Pulci : [probably] Morgante
'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point and idiom than I expected after the first Canto or two.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
John Stuart Mill : Conquest in America, The
'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Heinrich von Sybel : History and Literature of the Crusades
'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Casa Guidi Windows
'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable things a very noble expression of what I believe to be the true relation of the religious mind to the Past.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Alexandre Dumas (pere) : The Count of Monte Cristo
[at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
unknown : [books on medieval Greece]
'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been running through Wordsworth's "Greece" and studying the geography'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Christopher Wordsworth : Greece
'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been running through Wordsworth's "Greece" and studying the geography'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard : Poetes Latins de la Decadence
'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Juvenal : [unknown]
'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Meiner : [lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola]
'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". They are excellent. They have German industry and are succinctly and clearly written'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Girolamo Savonarola : Processi
'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Giovanni Boccaccio : Decameron
'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Niccolo Machiavelli : Il Principe
'Began "Il Principe".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Poliziano : Stanze
'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion of Tennyson's "Palace of Art" in many points'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Poliziano : Orfeo
'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion of Tennyson's "Palace of Art" in many points'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Girolamo Savonarola : Compendium Revelationum
'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Eliot (pseud.) : Romola
'Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
George Henry Lewes : Aristotle, a Chapter from the History of Science
'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864
Theodor Mommsen : [one of his Roman history works]
'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
William Wetmore Story : Roba di Roma
'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Henry George Liddell : A History of Rome
'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly] : [unknown]
'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler : [unknown]
'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Eliot (pseud.) : The Spanish Gipsy
'Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourages me'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of own work
[probably] William Prescott : [unknown]
'I read Prescott again and made notes'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Aeschlyus : [unknown]
'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Philip Wentworth Buckham : Theatre of the Greeks
'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Julius Leopold Klein : Geschichte des Dramas
'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Samuel Bamford : Passages in the Life of a Radical
'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
John Stuart Mill : Principles of Political Economy
'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Auguste Comte : The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
[n/a] : Annual Register, The
'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
[possibly] William Blackstone : [Commentaries on the laws of England?]
'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Fawcett : Economic Condition of the Working Classes
'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Marcus Aurelius : unknown
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Matthew Arnold : [poems]
'The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the later'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
John Bright : [speech on Ireland and Church Establishment]
'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that nothing will be a remedy for the woes of that country unless the Church Establishment be annulled: after the lapse of 20 years the measure is going to be adopted. Then I read aloud a bit of the "Promessi Sposi", and afterwards the "Spectator", in which there is a deservedly high appreciation of Lowell's Poems'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[n/a] : Spectator, The
'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that nothing will be a remedy for the woes of that country unless the Church Establishment be annulled: after the lapse of 20 years the measure is going to be adopted. Then I read aloud a bit of the "Promessi Sposi", and afterwards the "Spectator", in which there is a deservedly high appreciation of Lowell's Poems'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
Hermann von Helmholtz : [book on music]
'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[unknown] : [books on plants]
'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Lucretius : De Rerum Natura
'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard : Histoire de la litt?rature fran?aise
'Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Comines, Villon'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[unknown] : Ancient Geography
'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Smith : Universal History
'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe
'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[unknown] : Vegetable World, The
'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Michael Drayton : Nymphidia, The Court of Fairy
'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Michael Drayton : Polyolbion
'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Grote : [probably] History of Greece
'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Louis Reybaud : Etudes sur les r?formateurs ou socialistes modernes
'Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[unknown] : [on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socialists]
'I read about Fourier and Owen'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown
Plato : Republic
'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Emile Littre : [on Comte]
'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve : [unknown]
'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Samuel Dickson : Fallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine
'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Sonnets
'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
unknown : [Encyclopaedia re medical colleges]
'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Culen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
unknown : [Life of or by William Cullen]
'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 etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Rutherford Russell : History and Heroes of Medicine
'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 etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Aristophanes : Ecclesiazusae
'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 etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Macbeth
'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 etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Bekker : Charikles
'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
John Mandeville (pseud.) : Travels
'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
William Lecky : History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne
'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 his Psychology'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Herbert Spencer : [probably] Principles of Psychology, The
'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 his Psychology'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
[probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti : [poems]
'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
William R. Grove : On the Correlation of Physical Forces
'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse of years'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
John Gibson Lockhart : Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott
'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 Valat'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
James Anthony Froude : History of England
'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 Valat'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Auguste Comte : [correspondence with Valat]
'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 Valat'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Johann Wolfgang Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Friedrich August Wolf : Prolegomena ad Homerum
'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Jean Paul (pseud.) : Leben des Quintus Fixlein
'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Grote : [on Sicilian History]
'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Aristotle : Poetics
'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Henry Lewes : "Principles of Success in Literature
'Began to read "Principles of Success in Literature".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Henry Lewes : [Social Function...]
'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : Physical Basis of Mind, The
'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
: [journal by either Eliot or G.H. Lewes]
'Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, journal
George Henry Lewes : [journal, 1874]
'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, journal
George Henry Lewes : [various works Eliot was revising]
'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : Spanish Drama, The
'Read my darling's book on the Spanish Drama'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : [first article on Goethe]
'Read my darling's first article on Goethe'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : [probably] Problems of Life and Mind; Third Series: Mind as a Function of Organism
'Reading Problem III'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown
unknown : Times, The
'unable to read anything except "Times".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
W. Kingdom Clifford : First and Last Castrophe, The
'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
John Stuart Mill : [on socialism]
'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Herbert Spencer : Principles of Psychology
'Read Spencer's Psychology'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
unknown : [on colour sense]
'read on the colour-sense'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Hugo Magnus : Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung des Farbensinnes
'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Allen Grant : Colour Sense: its Origin and Development, The
'[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : [on language]
'read my darling's M.S. on Language'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown
Alexander Bain : [on nervous mechanism]
'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Foster : [on nervous mechanism]
'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Henry Lewes : [article on Philosophy in France]
'Made list of his articles, and read His article on Philosophy in France, 1843'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown
Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps) : [perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the Systematization of Mathematics
'Re-read "Laws of Operation".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown
Alexander Herzen : La Condizione fisica della Coscienza
'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's standpoint'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown
Homer : Iliad
[Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Henry Lewes : [essay on Dwarfs and Giants]
'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown
Alexander Bain (?) : unknown
'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown
Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve : unknown
'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Homer : [book IV - of Iliad?]
'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Michael Foster : Textbook of Physiology
'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Grote : [probably] History of Greece
'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Henry Lewes : Biographical History of Philosophy, A
'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Henry Lewes : Life and Works of Goethe, The
'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Frederick Pollock : [biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford]
'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Edward Caird : [probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte, The
'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Henry Lewes : Life and Works of Goethe
'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Sully : [article on G.H. Lewes]
'Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: proof of article
Voltaire (pseud.) : Candide
'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Plato : Republic,The
'Reading Plato - Republic'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Merritt (Mrs) : [recollections of her husband]
'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.'
UnknownCentury: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]
unknown : Hebrew texts
[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
unknown : [Algebra]
[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
[Read] 'Purgatorio'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Grote : History of Greece
'Read Grote on the Sophists'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George Henry Lewes : [letters to George Eliot]
'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Letter
Albrecht Weber : History of Indian Literature, The
'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Monier Monier Williams : [presumably work on Sanskrit]
'Finished Monier Williams'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
George John Romanes : Candid Examination of Theism, A
[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Cornelis Petrus Tiele : Outlines of the History of Religion
[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Homer : Odyssey
[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, The
[Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
John Hill Burton : history of the reign of Queen Anne, A
[Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Frances Anne Kemble : Records of a Girlhood
'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
unknown : [Jewish chronicles]
'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown
anon. : Hebrew Migration from Egypt, The
'Read "Hebrew Migration" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical with Mount Hor'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
anon. : Prose Edda, The
'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Thomas Malthus : unknown
'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Victor Hugo : Ruy Blas
'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[probably] Archibald Henry Sayce : [if this Sayce then work of Assyriology]
[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi
[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert : Discours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?die
'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Auguste Comte : [unknown]
'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Hermann and Dorothea
'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Alfred Lord Tennyson : [poems including 'The First Quarrel']
'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Margaret Oliphant : My faithful Johnny
'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Frederic William Henry Myers : Wordsworth
'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.
