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George Eliot (pseud)
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Agnes Catlow : Popular Field Botany
'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book
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
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
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
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
Jane Austen : Emma
'read "Emma" in the evening.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Aeschlyus [?] : Prometheus
'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book
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
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
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
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
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
Thomas a Kempis : Imitation of Christ, The (?)
'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book
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
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.'
