Die Familie [The Family] (German)
Title
Die Familie [The Family] (German)
Text Read
Die Familie [The Family] (German)
Author
Riehl, Wilhelm Heinrich
Original Source
Stuttgart & Augsburg: Cotta, 1855
Digitized by
HathiTrust
Publication Date
1855
Date(s) of Reading
- 1857-12-08
- 1857-12-17
Evidence
1857-12-08: "8. 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." Diary 1854-1861 71
1857-12-17: "Thursday. 17. Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly. I have finished "Die Familie" by Riehl, a delightful book. I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading History of Thirty Years' Peace and Beranger. Thoroughly disappointed in Beranger." Diary 1854-1861 71
1857-12-17: "Thursday. 17. Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly. I have finished "Die Familie" by Riehl, a delightful book. I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading History of Thirty Years' Peace and Beranger. Thoroughly disappointed in Beranger." Diary 1854-1861 71
Citation
Riehl, Wilhelm Heinrich, Die Familie [The Family] (German), George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57012