| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to a... | George Eliot [pseud] | Sarah Lewis | Woman's Mission | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | George Eliot | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.' | George Eliot [pseud] | 'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.' | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | 'Kestner letters' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Franz Liszt | [account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying Dutchman] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read a... | George Eliot (pseud) | Franz Liszt | [article on Meyerbeer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read a... | George Eliot (pseud) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Wahlverwandtschaften | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Denis Diderot | Le Nevue de Rameau | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably] | Egmont | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Great Hoggarty Diamond | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first r... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gross Cophta | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstra... | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Moore | Memoirs of the Life of Sheridan | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, rea... | George Eliot [pseud] | possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz | [if this Gotz, then poetry] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, rea... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Der Burgergeneral | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' | George Eliot [pseud] | Benedictus de Spinoza | Ethics | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Carl Eduard Vehse | Der Hof zu Weimar | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Me... | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | "Donna Clara" | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | poems | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Laocoon'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear a... | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi | Briefe Uber Spinoza | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Nathan der Weise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Minna von Barnhelm | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Italianische Reise.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italianische Reise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Fanny Lewald | Wandlungen | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italianische Reise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johannes Scherr | Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte' | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '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'... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [a farce] | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Euripides | Iphigenia | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Hermann and Dorothea | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. | George Eliot [pseud] | various | The Leader | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. | George Eliot [pseud] | various | Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Torquato Tasso | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | Die Gotter im Exil | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | [poems] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [discourse on Shakespeare] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [on Spinoza] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [draft of Life of Goethe] | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of Lewes' book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | De l'Allemagne | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud He... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud He... | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | Der Salon | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f... | George Eliot [pseud] | Adolf Stahr | Torso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der Alten | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy' | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | [on German philosophy] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Maxims, in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [Dr] Fischer | [a pamphlet] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth ... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | book in MS, perhaps his Life of Goethe | Manuscript: Unknown, book M.S. |
| 1850-1899 | 'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth ... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Hamburgische Briefe | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | West-Ostliche Divan | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough... | George Eliot [pseud] | Adolf Stahr | Ein Jahr in Italien | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough... | George Eliot [pseud] | Georg Gottfried Gervinus | [on Shakespeare] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Romische Elegien | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Venetian Epigrams | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | "Zuegnung", "Gedichte", Ballads | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Karl Eduard Vehse | probably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Reformation | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | part of the MS of his Life of Goethe | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Nathaniel Wraxall | Historical Memoirs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | MS of his Life of Goethe | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Sp... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare (and others) | The Passionate Pilgrim | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Leader" and Scherr'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [various] | The Leader | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Macbeth".' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Romeo and Juliet"' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"' | George Eliot [pseud] | anon | Nibelungen Lied | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Athenaeum"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Contemporary Literature | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [article on Dryden in W.R. - a periodical?] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johannes Scherr | [perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur? | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Reineke Fuchs"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe | Reineke Fuchs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Schrader's German Mythology' | George Eliot [pseud] | Eberhard Schrader | [German Mythology] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Herbert Spencer | The Genesis of Science | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3 | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Cumming | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Iliad, book II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Sand | Lucrezia Floriani | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Sophocles | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | P. von Bohlen | Genesis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Emanuel Swedenborg | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Meredith | The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Kingsley | The Greek Heroes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Karl Friedrich August Kahnis | [history of German Protestantism - title unclear] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Heinrich (?) Riehl | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud.] | David Masson | [essay on the Life of Chatterton] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud] | David Masson | 'The Three Devils' | Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856 |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud.] | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Pierre Beaumarchais | M?moires contre Goezman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henri Milne-Edwards | [work on Zoology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | Henri Milne-Edwards | [work on Zoology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | Harriet Martineau | [article on Missions in the Westminster Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | various | [articles in the National] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | W.H. Harvey | The Sea-side Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | The Lover's Seat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have now taken up Quatrefages again.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau | [zoology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Honore de Balzac | The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."' | George Eliot [pseud] | Sophocles | Ajax | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace' | George Eliot [pseud] | Harriet Martineau | History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Edmund Burke | Reflections on the Revolution in France | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infid... | George Eliot (pseud) | Sara Hennell | Christianity and Infidelity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Agnes Catlow | Popular Field Botany | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot (pseud) | Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot (pseud) | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'. | George Eliot (pseud) | John William Draper | Human Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read "Emma" in the evening.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".' | George Eliot (pseud) | George Eliot (pseud) | Janet's Repentance | Manuscript: MS of own work |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Aeschlyus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Henry Thomas Buckle | History of Civilization in England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr... | George Eliot (pseud) | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl | Die Familie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr... | George Eliot (pseud) | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl | Land Und Volk | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr... | George Eliot (pseud) | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl | Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '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 Choe... | George Eliot (pseud) | George Eliot (pseud.) | Adam Bede | Manuscript: MS of own novel |
| 1850-1899 | '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 Choe... | George Eliot (pseud) | Aeschlyus | Choephorae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ... | George Eliot (pseud) | anon. | [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ... | George Eliot (pseud) | Charles Dickens | The Haunted Man | Print: Unknown, could have been book or serial |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i... | George Eliot (pseud) | Aeschlyus | Eumenides | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentim... | George Eliot (pseud) | Harriet Martineau | History of the Thirty Years Peace | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Prometheus" in the morning'. | George Eliot (pseud) | Aeschlyus [?] | Prometheus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Horace | The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Thomas Carlyle | Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Miche... | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of C... | George Eliot (pseud) | Flouren | [probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini... | George Eliot (pseud) | Auguste Comte | Catechism Of Positive Religion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ, The (?) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested... | George Eliot (pseud) | John Bunyan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.' | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | [Life of Francois de Sales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse | "Vier Neue Novellen" | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Henri Marc-Bonnet | "Histoire des Ordres Religieux" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | T.A. Trollope | La Beata | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Franco Sachetti | Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | History of the Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'. | George Eliot | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | W.G. Tenneman | Manual of the History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while f... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Le Moyen Age Illustre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [article in the Athenaeum] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Montalambert | The Monks of the West | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Audin de Rians | [Introduction to Savonarola's Poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte on the Middle Ages' | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [on the Middle Ages] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache' | George Eliot [pseud] | Anthony Trollope | Orley Farm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Ernest Renan | ?tudes d?histoire religieuse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again' | George Eliot [pseud] | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Buhle | Textbook on the History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [MS article on Mad Dogs] | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henry Hallam | [perhaps The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning' | George Eliot [pseud] | Edward Gibbon | [on revival of Greek learning] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Savonarola's Sermons' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermons] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Discourse on Government | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermon on the Epistle of John] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it' | George Eliot [pseud] | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good st... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anton Francesco Doni | I Marmi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giovanni Boccaccio | [story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot [pseud.] | anon | Arabian Nights, story of the Little Hunchback | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot | Jacopo Nardi (probably) | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'. | George Eliot | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Francesco Sachetti | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'. | George Eliot | Burlamacchi | Life of Savonarola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Pulci'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | [probably] Luigi Pulci | [if this Pulci, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giovanni (?) Villani | Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giuseppe Zirardini [probably] | Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimoterzo al decimonono secolo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Sacred and Legendary Art | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Marullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Joseph Pettigrew | Medical Superstitions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Girolamo Tiraboschi | [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.' | George Eliot | Girolamo Tiraboschi | [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Daniel Rock | Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Manni | [Life of Burchiello] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Sacred and Legendary Art | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [article in the National] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Daniel Rock | Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Legends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In The Fine Arts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Marchese | Storia di San Marco | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [article on Mormons in Westminster Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Archivo Storico | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Vespasiano da Bisticci | [probably] Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV, | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ginguene in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Pierre Louis Ginguene | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Lewes | [compositions] | Manuscript: Unknown, compositions |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Nerli'. | George Eliot | unknown | Nerli | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot | [probably] The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked through Machiavelli's works'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Pasquale Villari | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence' | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence' | George Eliot [pseud] | Donato Giannotti | Della repubblica fiorentina | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters' | George Eliot [pseud] | Cicero | De Officiis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters' | George Eliot | Francesco Petrarch | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'to the London Library where I looked through Selden's "Titles of Honour"' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Selden | Titles of Honour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome' | George Eliot [pseud] | Amans-Alexis Monteil | [presumably one of his works on history of French civilisation] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Michelangelo Buonarotti the Younger | La Tancia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Pierre Louis Ginguene | [possibly] Histoire litteraire d'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Lillie Craik | History of English Literature and the English Language | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | Juvenal | [a satire] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot | Epictetus | Enchiridion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | Luigi Pulci | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | Canti Carnascialeschi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | Manni | Veglie Piacevole | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | Theocritus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino' | George Eliot [pseud] | Juvenal | [Sixth Satire] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino' | George Eliot [pseud] | Marco Lastri | Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel' | George Eliot [pseud] | Goldwin Smith | [answer to Mansel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''In the evening Bekker's Charikles' | George Eliot [pseud] | Bekker (or Becker?) | Charikles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence' | George Eliot [pseud] | Benedetto Varchi | [History of Florence] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...' | George Eliot [pseud] | Humphrey Hody | De Graecis Illustribus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Mura... | George Eliot [pseud] | Scipioni Ammirato | Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Mu... | George Eliot [pseud] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | [unknown, on the Confraternita] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo' | George Eliot [pseud] | Franco Sachetti | [probably] Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo' | George Eliot [pseud] | Francesco Filelfo | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again' | George Eliot [pseud] | Benedetto Varchi | [History of Florence] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | De Veritate Profetica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome' | George Eliot [pseud] | Conyers Middleton | Dr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact Conformity Between Popery and Paganism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Compendium Revelationum | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren | [on the XVth Century] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Politian's Lamia' | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Lamia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Malmantile' | George Eliot [pseud] | Malmantile | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente' | George Eliot [pseud] | Luigi Pulci | [unknown -novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente' | George Eliot [pseud] | Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca) | [possibly a story from Le Cene] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Emile Du Bois Reymond | [book on Johannes Mueler] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Istorie fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".' | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | [chronicle of conquest of the Morea] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece"' | George Eliot | George Finlay | A History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | La Mandragola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena | La Calandra | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Eliot (pseud.) | Romola | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1850-1899 | 'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point an... | George Eliot [pseud] | Luigi Pulci | [probably] Morgante | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | Conquest in America, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades' | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich von Sybel | History and Literature of the Crusades | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Casa Guidi Windows | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Count of Monte Cristo | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this ... | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [books on medieval Greece] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Christopher Wordsworth | Greece | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard | Poetes Latins de la Decadence | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Juvenal | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". T... | George Eliot [pseud] | Meiner | [lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Processi | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio' | George Eliot [pseud] | Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Il Principe".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Il Principe | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a descrip... | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Stanze | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a descrip... | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Orfeo | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Compendium Revelationum | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Eliot (pseud.) | Romola | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Aristotle, a Chapter from the History of Science | Manuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864 |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Theodor Mommsen | [one of his Roman history works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Wetmore Story | Roba di Roma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henry George Liddell | A History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl... | George Eliot [pseud] | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourage... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Eliot (pseud.) | The Spanish Gipsy | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of own work |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Prescott again and made notes' | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] William Prescott | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Aeschlyus | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Philip Wentworth Buckham | Theatre of the Greeks | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Julius Leopold Klein | Geschichte des Dramas | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | Samuel Bamford | Passages in the Life of a Radical | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | Principles of Political Economy | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Annual Register, The | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [possibly] William Blackstone | [Commentaries on the laws of England?] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [English history in reign of George III] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Aeschylus | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Henry Lewes | [article on Grote's Plato] | Manuscript: Unknown, ms of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu | Contes populaires des anciens Bretons | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud] | Fawcett | Economic Condition of the Working Classes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | David Friedrich Strauss | Life of Jesus [second version] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown Neale | History of the Puritans | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the Bible' | George Eliot [pseud.] | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Hallam's Middle Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Henry Hallam | The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [perhaps] History of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Stuart Mill | A System of Logic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [English History and Law] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Eliot (pseud.) | Felix Holt | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Friedrich Bouterwek | Geschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol on Spanish literature] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | [unknown - on Spain] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Georges Bernard Depping | [unknown - on Spain] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Juan Antonio Llorente | [Spanish history] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Georges Depping | Juifs au Moyen Age | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Geoffrey Chaucer | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [works on music and acoustics] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ernest Renan | Histoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s?mitiques | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Ticknor | History of Spanish Literature | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Cornewall Lewis | Astronomy of the Ancients | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Simon Ockley | History of the Saracens | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [books on Astronomical Geography] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [ballads on Bernardo del Carpio] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Los Judios en Espana | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Percy (ed.) | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Isis | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the Iliad, book III'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Henry Prescott | History of Ferdinand and Isabella, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ernest Renan | Averroes et l'Averroisme | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Eliakim Carmoly | Histoire des M?decins Juifs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | First Principles | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Henry Lewes | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Salomon Munk | Melanges de Philosophie Juive et Arabe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown Guillemin | [presumably astronomy text] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Lubbock | Prehistoric Times | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Lucretius | De Rerum Natura | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Warton | History of English Poetry, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Grote | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Marcus Aurelius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Auguste Comte | Syst?me de politique positive | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Edwin Guest | History of English Rhythms, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Frederick Denison Maurice | Conscience: Lectures On Casuistry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [philology books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | [Mrs] Grey | [Etruscan subjects] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Dennis | Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ben Jonson | Alchemist, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Bright | [Speeches] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Bright | [4th speech on India] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [Italian story] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac... | George Eliot [pseud.] | W Thomson | [essay in Revue des Cours] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Theodor Mommsen | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Matthew Arnold | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that n... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Bright | [speech on Ireland and Church Establishment] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that n... | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' | George Eliot [pseud] | Hermann von Helmholtz | [book on music] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | [books on plants] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot [pseud] | Lucretius | De Rerum Natura | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot | Victor Hugo | L'Homme Qui Rit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot | Willhelmine von Hillern | Ein Arzt der Seele | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Co... | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard | Histoire de la litt?rature fran?aise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | Ancient Geography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | Smith | Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | Vegetable World, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | Michael Drayton | Nymphidia, The Court of Fairy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | Michael Drayton | Polyolbion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | [probably] History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes' | George Eliot [pseud] | Louis Reybaud | Etudes sur les r?formateurs ou socialistes modernes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read about Fourier and Owen' | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | [on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socialists] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte' | George Eliot [pseud] | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte' | George Eliot [pseud] | Emile Littre | [on Comte] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot | Theocritus | 22nd Idyll | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot [pseud] | Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot [pseud] | Samuel Dickson | Fallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"' | George Eliot | Pierre Victor Renouard | History of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Encyclopaedia re medical colleges] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Life of or by William Cullen] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | Rutherford Russell | History and Heroes of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | Aristophanes | Ecclesiazusae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Bekker | Charikles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Mandeville (pseud.) | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals... | George Eliot | Max Muller | History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Lecky | History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals... | George Eliot [pseud] | Herbert Spencer | [probably] Principles of Psychology, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse ... | George Eliot [pseud] | William R. Grove | On the Correlation of Physical Forces | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Gibson Lockhart | Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | James Anthony Froude | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [correspondence with Valat] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Friedrich August Wolf | Prolegomena ad Homerum | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Paul (pseud.) | Leben des Quintus Fixlein | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | [on Sicilian History] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856' | George Eliot [pseud] | Aristotle | Poetics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read "Principles of Success in Literature".' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | "Principles of Success in Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [Social Function...] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Physical Basis of Mind, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work' | George Eliot [pseud] | | [journal by either Eliot or G.H. Lewes] | Manuscript: Unknown, journal |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [journal, 1874] | Manuscript: Unknown, journal |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [various works Eliot was revising] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my darling's book on the Spanish Drama' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Spanish Drama, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my darling's first article on Goethe' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [first article on Goethe] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Problem III' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [probably] Problems of Life and Mind; Third Series: Mind as a Function of Organism | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'unable to read anything except "Times".' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Times, The | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe' | George Eliot [pseud] | W. Kingdom Clifford | First and Last Castrophe, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | [on socialism] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Spencer's Psychology' | George Eliot [pseud] | Herbert Spencer | Principles of Psychology | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read on the colour-sense' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [on colour sense] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn' | George Eliot [pseud] | Hugo Magnus | Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung des Farbensinnes | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Allen Grant | Colour Sense: its Origin and Development, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read my darling's M.S. on Language' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [on language] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Bain | [on nervous mechanism] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's' | George Eliot [pseud] | Foster | [on nervous mechanism] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Made list of his articles, and read His article on Philosophy in France, 1843' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [article on Philosophy in France] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Re-read "Laws of Operation".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps) | [perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the Systematization of Mathematics | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's st... | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Herzen | La Condizione fisica della Coscienza | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [essay on Dwarfs and Giants] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Bain (?) | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | [book IV - of Iliad?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Michael Foster | Textbook of Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | [probably] History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Biographical History of Philosophy, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Life and Works of Goethe, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frederick Pollock | [biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Edward Caird | [probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Life and Works of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Sully | [article on G.H. Lewes] | Manuscript: proof of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Voltaire (pseud.) | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Plato - Republic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Plato | Republic,The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Merritt (Mrs) | [recollections of her husband] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Hebrew texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Algebra] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Purgatorio'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Grote on the Sophists'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [letters to George Eliot] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Albrecht Weber | History of Indian Literature, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Monier Williams' | George Eliot [pseud] | Monier Monier Williams | [presumably work on Sanskrit] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | George John Romanes | Candid Examination of Theism, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Cornelis Petrus Tiele | Outlines of the History of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'. | George Eliot [pseud] | John Hill Burton | history of the reign of Queen Anne, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frances Anne Kemble | Records of a Girlhood | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Jewish chronicles] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Hebrew Migration" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical... | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Hebrew Migration from Egypt, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Prose Edda, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Malthus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Victor Hugo | Ruy Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] Archibald Henry Sayce | [if this Sayce then work of Assyriology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Le Rond D'Alembert | Discours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?die | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Hermann and Dorothea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alfred Lord Tennyson | [poems including 'The First Quarrel'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Margaret Oliphant | My faithful Johnny | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frederic William Henry Myers | Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]
'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of G... | George Eliot | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]
'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of G... | George Eliot | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |