| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | George Eliot | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".' | Grace Macaulay | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | George Eliot | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | George Eliot | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | George Eliot | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Not long ago I happened to call at the railway carter, and found the wife of the man engaged in reading George Eliots'... | | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything sati... | Margaret Oliphant | George Eliot | Felix Holt the Radical | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though sh... | Leslie Stephen | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "Then I promised Morley to contribute to a continuation of the 'Men of Letters' series a book upon George Eliot. I fin... | Leslie Stephen | George Eliot | Romola | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Mrs Benson, wife of the Headmaster of Wellington College, [scandalized] his friends by letting her children read Geor... | Benson family | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '[On grounds of propriety] Lucy Caroline Lyttelton's grandmother ... left out one chapter of ... [Adam Bede] ... when ... | | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... as late as the 1890s, Harriet Shaw Weaver's mother was shocked when she came upon her adolescent daughter readin... | Harriet Shaw Weaver | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Jane Ellen Harrison, in Reminiscences of a Student's Life (1925) 11-12: "'Until I met Aunt Glegg in the Mill on the Fl... | Jane Ellen Harrison | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h... | anon | George Eliot | novels | Print: Book |
| | 'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot... | George Acorn | George Eliot [pseud] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ...... | Ada Cambridge | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'George Acorn read George Eliot at age nine, but "solely for the story. I used to skip the parts that moralized, or pa... | George Acorn | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradua... | anon | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 22 February, 1876: "Of course you have read Daniel Deronda, and I hope you have enjoyed it... | Henry James | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "... [Daniel Deronda] disappoints me as it goes on -- the analysing a... | Henry James | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"... | Sir Walter Raleigh | George Eliot | Adam Bede | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you yet seen Middlemarch? You would not be quite so unsophisticated a visitor to Rome as Miss Brooke.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931:
'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe... | Virginia Woolf | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | Peter Lloyd | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they beg... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Scenes from Clerical Life | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Amos Barton | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received the copy of "Adam Bede" which you were so kind as to send me quite safely; and I am very much obliged to y... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Please say [if Marian Evans is really the author of Adam Bede...] It is a noble grand book, whoever wrote it, - but M... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think I have a feeling that it is not worth while trying to write, while there are such books as Adam Bede & Scenes... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Janet's Repentance | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Scenes from Clerical Life | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | 'Amos Barton' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read ... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and i... | Antonia White | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include speech about Christmas by Dolly Winthrop in ch... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Eliot | Silas Marner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940:
'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last nig... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My desultory and totally unorganised reading of George Eliot, Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Carlyle, Emerson and Merejkowsk... | Vera Brittain | George Eliot | Romola | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:' | Vera Brittain | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to h... | Alfred Tennyson | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to h... | Alfred Tennyson | George Eliot | Scenes of Clerical Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to h... | Alfred Tennyson | George Eliot | Silas Marner | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to h... | Alfred Tennyson | George Eliot | Romola | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] speci... | Frederic Harrison | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty year... | Zoe Procter | George Eliot | The Spanish Gipsy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty year... | Zoe Procter | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'various readings from George Eliot in character & otherwise were then given by members bringing a very pleasant meeti... | members of XII Book Club | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss A... | Joyce Heelas | George Eliot [pseud.] | Romola | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss A... | Miss Angus [?] | George Eliot [pseud.] | Romola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did you − I forget − did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel De... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |