| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |