| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 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 | '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.] | 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 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 [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 | '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 | '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 | '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 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 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 | '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.] | 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.] | 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 | 'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |