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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

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William Wordsworth : poetry

Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill, Ruskin, and Tennyson ... read Wordsworth in the collections [of his poetry] published in his lifetime ..."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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'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

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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

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unknown : 'Kestner letters'

'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Unknown

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Franz Liszt : [account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying Dutchman]

'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Unknown

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Franz Liszt : [article on Meyerbeer]

'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Manuscript: Unknown

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Die Wahlverwandtschaften

'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Denis Diderot : Le Nevue de Rameau

'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably] : Egmont

'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Italianische Reise

'Began the Italianische Reise.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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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

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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

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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

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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'.

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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[Dr] Fischer : [a pamphlet]

'Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Nathaniel Wraxall : Historical Memoirs

'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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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

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William Shakespeare : Venus and Adonis

'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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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

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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

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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

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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

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[various] : The Leader

'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

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William Shakespeare : Macbeth

'Read "Macbeth".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

'Read "Romeo and Juliet"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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anon  : Nibelungen Lied

'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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[n/a] : The Athenaeum

'Read "Athenaeum"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

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[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

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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

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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

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Johan Wolfgang von Goethe : Reineke Fuchs

'Began "Reineke Fuchs"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Eberhard Schrader : [German Mythology]

'Began Schrader's German Mythology'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Herbert Spencer : The Genesis of Science

'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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William Shakespeare : Henry V

'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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William Shakespeare : Henry VIII

'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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William Shakespeare : Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3

'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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William Shakespeare : Richard II

'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Cumming : unknown

'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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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

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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

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Sophocles : Antigone

'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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P. von Bohlen : Genesis

'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Emanuel Swedenborg : unknown

'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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George Meredith : The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment

'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Charles Kingsley : The Greek Heroes

'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Karl Friedrich August Kahnis : [history of German Protestantism - title unclear]

'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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William Heinrich (?) Riehl : unknown

'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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David Masson : [essay on the Life of Chatterton]

'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

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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

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Richard Chenevix Trench : An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With translations from his Life's a dream and Great theatre of the world

'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: Book

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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

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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

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Henri Milne-Edwards : [work on Zoology]

'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National". Reading to myself Harvey's "Sea-side Book", and "The Lover's Seat".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Harriet Martineau : [article on Missions in the Westminster Review]

'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National". Reading to myself Harvey's "Sea-side Book", and "The Lover's Seat".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Serial / periodical

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various : [articles in the National]

'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National". Reading to myself Harvey's "Sea-side Book", and "The Lover's Seat".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Serial / periodical

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W.H. Harvey : The Sea-side Book

'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National". Reading to myself Harvey's "Sea-side Book", and "The Lover's Seat".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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unknown : The Lover's Seat

'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National". Reading to myself Harvey's "Sea-side Book", and "The Lover's Seat".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau : [zoology]

'have now taken up Quatrefages again.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Honore de Balzac : The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Sara Hennell : Christianity and Infidelity

'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infidelity".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Agnes Catlow : Popular Field Botany

'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Sophocles  : Oedipus Rex

'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Percy Bysshe Shelley : [Poems]

'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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John William Draper : Human Physiology

'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Jane Austen : Emma

'read "Emma" in the evening.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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George Eliot (pseud) : Janet's Repentance

'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Manuscript: MS of own work

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Aeschlyus  : Agamemnon

'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : Die Familie

'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading "Die Familie" by Riehl, forming the third volume of the series, the two first of which "Land und Volk" and "Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft", I reviewed for the Westminster'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : Land Und Volk

'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading "Die Familie" by Riehl, forming the third volume of the series, the two first of which "Land und Volk" and "Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft", I reviewed for the Westminster'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft

'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading "Die Familie" by Riehl, forming the third volume of the series, the two first of which "Land und Volk" and "Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft", I reviewed for the Westminster'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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George Eliot (pseud.) : Adam Bede

'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History of Thirty Years' Peace" and Beranger. Throughly disappointed in Beranger'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Manuscript: MS of own novel

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Aeschlyus : Choephorae

'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History of Thirty Years' Peace" and Beranger. Throughly disappointed in Beranger'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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anon.  : [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"]

'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunted Man".'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Newspaper

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Charles Dickens : The Haunted Man

'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunted Man".'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Unknown, could have been book or serial

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Aeschlyus : Eumenides

'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Harriet Martineau : History of the Thirty Years Peace

'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fatiguing and not instructive. But her history of the Reform Movement is very interesting'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Aeschlyus [?] : Prometheus

'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Horace : The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos

'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Thomas Carlyle : Frederick the Great

'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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unknown  : [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"]

'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book "De l'Amour".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Newspaper

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Flouren : [probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier]

'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of Cuvier's labours.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Auguste Comte : Catechism Of Positive Religion, The

'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "Tom Brown's School Days" with much disappointment. It is an unpleasant, unveracious book'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Thomas a Kempis : Imitation of Christ, The (?)

'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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John Bunyan : unknown

'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested in the simple, vigorous, rhythmic style.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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unknown : [Life of Francois de Sales]

'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

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Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse : "Vier Neue Novellen"

'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Unknown

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Henri Marc-Bonnet : "Histoire des Ordres Religieux"

'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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T.A. Trollope : La Beata

'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Franco Sachetti : Novelle

'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : History of the Italian Republics

'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Marco Lastri : L'Osservatore Fiorentino

'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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W.G. Tenneman : Manual of the History of Philosophy

'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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unknown : Le Moyen Age Illustre

'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while for me to keep the work.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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unknown : [article in the Athenaeum]

'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christianity. In the evening read the "Monks of the West".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Serial / periodical

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Charles Montalambert : The Monks of the West

'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christianity. In the evening read the "Monks of the West".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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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

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[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

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[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

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Auguste Comte : [on the Middle Ages]

'Read Comte on the Middle Ages'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine

'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Serial / periodical

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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

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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

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Virgil : Eclogues

'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Girolamo Savonarola : [Sermons]

'Savonarola's Sermons'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Anton Francesco Doni : I Marmi

'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Giovanni Boccaccio : [story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron]

'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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anon : Arabian Nights, story of the Little Hunchback

'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Jacopo Nardi (probably) : unknown

'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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Edward Bulwer Lytton : Rienzi

'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici

'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Francesco Sachetti : [stories]

'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici

'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Burlamacchi : Life of Savonarola

'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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[probably] Luigi Pulci : [if this Pulci, poetry]

'began Pulci'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Giovanni (?) Villani : Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?]

'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Giuseppe Zirardini [probably] : Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimoterzo al decimonono secolo

'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Anna Jameson : Sacred and Legendary Art

'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Marullus : unknown

'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Joseph Pettigrew : Medical Superstitions

'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Girolamo Tiraboschi : [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana

'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Girolamo Tiraboschi : [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana

'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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Daniel Rock : Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Manni : [Life of Burchiello]

'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Anna Jameson : Sacred and Legendary Art

'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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unknown : [article in the National]

'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Serial / periodical

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Daniel Rock :  Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass

'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Anna Jameson : Legends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In The Fine Arts

'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Marchese : Storia di San Marco

'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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unknown : [article on Mormons in Westminster Review]

'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Serial / periodical

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unknown : Archivo Storico

'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Unknown

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Vespasiano da Bisticci : [probably] Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV,

'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Pierre Louis Ginguene : unknown

'Read Ginguene in the evening'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Charles Lewes : [compositions]

'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness of expression about common things'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Manuscript: Unknown, compositions

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unknown : Nerli

'Read Nerli'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot : [probably] The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789

'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Niccolo Machiavelli : The Prince (probably)

'Looked through Machiavelli's works'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Pasquale Villari : unknown

'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Ludovico Antonio Muratori : unknown

'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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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

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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

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[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

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[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

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Cicero : De Officiis

'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Francesco Petrarch : [Letters]

'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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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

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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

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Michelangelo Buonarotti the Younger : La Tancia

'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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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

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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

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Epictetus : Enchiridion

'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      Print: Book

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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

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[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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Bekker (or Becker?) : Charikles

''In the evening Bekker's Charikles'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Franco Sachetti : [probably] Novelle

'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Francesco Filelfo : [Letters]

'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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Girolamo Savonarola : De Veritate Profetica

'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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Girolamo Savonarola : Compendium Revelationum

'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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Poliziano : Lamia

'Read Politian's Lamia'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Malmantile : [unknown]

'Read the Malmantile'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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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

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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

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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

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[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

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[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

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George Finlay : A History of Greece

'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      Print: Book

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Niccolo Machiavelli : Il Principe

'Began "Il Principe".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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[probably] William Prescott : [unknown]

'I read Prescott again and made notes'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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[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

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[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

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unknown : [English history in reign of George III]

'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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William Shakespeare : King John

'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Aeschylus : unknown

'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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George Henry Lewes : [article on Grote's Plato]

'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Manuscript: Unknown, ms of article

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Aeschylus : Agamemnon

'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu : Contes populaires des anciens Bretons

'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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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

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John Stuart Mill : On Liberty

'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

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David Friedrich Strauss : Life of Jesus [second version]

'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

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unknown Neale : History of the Puritans

'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

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 : Bible

'Reading the Bible'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Henry Hallam : The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages

'began Hallam's Middle Ages'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Thomas Babington Macaulay :  [perhaps] History of England [?]

'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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John Stuart Mill : A System of Logic

'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Theocritus : unknown

'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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unknown : [English History and Law]

'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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George Eliot (pseud.) : Felix Holt

'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Manuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel

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Friedrich Bouterwek : Geschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol on Spanish literature]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : [unknown - on Spain]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Georges Bernard Depping : [unknown - on Spain]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Juan Antonio Llorente : [Spanish history]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Georges Depping : Juifs au Moyen Age

'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Geoffrey Chaucer : [unknown]

'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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unknown : [works on music and acoustics]

'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Ernest Renan : Histoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s?mitiques

'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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George Ticknor : History of Spanish Literature

'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Cornewall Lewis : Astronomy of the Ancients

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Simon Ockley : History of the Saracens

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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unknown : [books on Astronomical Geography]

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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unknown : [ballads on Bernardo del Carpio]

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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unknown : Los Judios en Espana

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Thomas Percy (ed.) : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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unknown : Isis

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Homer : Iliad

'Reading the Iliad, book III'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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William Henry Prescott : History of Ferdinand and Isabella, The

'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Ernest Renan : Averroes et l'Averroisme

'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Eliakim Carmoly : Histoire des M?decins Juifs

'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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unknown : First Principles

'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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George Henry Lewes : [letter]

'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Manuscript: Letter

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Salomon Munk : Melanges de Philosophie Juive et Arabe

'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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unknown Guillemin : [presumably astronomy text]

'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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John Lubbock : Prehistoric Times

'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Lucretius : De Rerum Natura

'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

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Homer : Iliad

'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

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John Milton : Samson Agonistes

'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

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Thomas Warton : History of English Poetry, The

'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

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George Grote : 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

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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

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Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova

'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

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Auguste Comte : Syst?me de politique positive

'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

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Edwin Guest : History of English Rhythms, A

'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

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Frederick Denison Maurice : Conscience: Lectures On Casuistry

'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

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unknown : [philology books]

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Homer : Iliad

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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[Mrs] Grey : [Etruscan subjects]

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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George Dennis : Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, The

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Ben Jonson : Alchemist, The

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Ben Jonson : Volpone

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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John Bright : [Speeches]

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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John Bright : [4th speech on India]

'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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unknown : [Italian story]

'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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unknown : Spectator, The

'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Serial / periodical

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W Thomson : [essay in Revue des Cours]

'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Serial / periodical

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Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi

'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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Theodor Mommsen : History of Rome

'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

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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

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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

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[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

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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

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[unknown] : [books on plants]

'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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Victor Hugo : L'Homme Qui Rit

'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      Print: Book

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Willhelmine von Hillern : Ein Arzt der Seele

'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      Print: Book

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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

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[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

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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

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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

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[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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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[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

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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

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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

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Theocritus : 22nd Idyll

'[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      Print: Book

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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

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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

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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

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Pierre Victor Renouard : History of Medicine

'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Bekker : Charikles

'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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John Mandeville (pseud.) : Travels

'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Max Muller : History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature

'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      Print: Book

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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

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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

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Charles Dickens : Edwin Drood

'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Serial / periodical

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[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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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George Henry Lewes : [Social Function...]

'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown

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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

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 : [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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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unknown : Times, The

'unable to read anything except "Times".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown

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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

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John Stuart Mill : [on socialism]

'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Herbert Spencer : Principles of Psychology

'Read Spencer's Psychology'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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unknown : [on colour sense]

'read on the colour-sense'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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Hugo Magnus : Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung des Farbensinnes

'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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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

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George Henry Lewes : [on language]

'read my darling's M.S. on Language'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Manuscript: Unknown

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Homer : Iliad

[Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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Alexander Bain (?) : unknown

'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Unknown

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Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve : unknown

'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Homer : [book IV - of Iliad?]

'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Michael Foster :  Textbook of Physiology

'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Voltaire (pseud.) : Candide

'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Plato : Republic,The

'Reading Plato - Republic'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Merritt (Mrs) : [recollections of her husband]

'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      

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unknown : Hebrew texts

[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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unknown : [Algebra]

[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio

[Read] 'Purgatorio'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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George Grote : History of Greece

'Read Grote on the Sophists'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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Albrecht Weber : History of Indian Literature, The

'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Monier Monier Williams : [presumably work on Sanskrit]

'Finished Monier Williams'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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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

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Homer : Odyssey

[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, The

[Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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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

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unknown : [Jewish chronicles]

'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Unknown

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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

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anon. : Prose Edda, The

'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Thomas Malthus : unknown

'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Victor Hugo : Ruy Blas

'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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[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

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Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi

[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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Auguste Comte : [unknown]

'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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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

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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

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Margaret Oliphant : My faithful Johnny

'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Serial / periodical

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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

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Frederic William Henry Myers : Wordsworth

'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]

'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Writing to a correspondent in June 1848, she says, "I have read 'Jane Eyre' [...] All self- sacrifice is good, but one would like it to be in a somewhat nobler cause than that of a diabolical law which chains a man soul and body to a putrefying carcase. However the book is interesting; only I wish the characters would talk a little less like the heroes and heroines of police reports."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]

'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Of Mrs Gaskell's "Life" she writes to a friend in 1857: "But there is one new book we have been enjoying [...] the "Life of Charlotte Bronte"'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

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