Emma: A Novel
Title
Emma: A Novel
Text Read
Emma: A Novel
Author
Austen, Jane
Original Source
London: Bentley, 1851
Digitized by
HathiTrust
Publication Date
1851
Date(s) of Reading
- 1857-03-[?]
- 1857-05-13
- 1875-09-24 to 10-09
Evidence
1857-03-[?]: Recollections of the Scilly Isles, 1857. “Our readings aloud were Cromwell's Letters, Aurora Leigh (for the 2d time), Life of Charlotte Bronte, Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea, 912 Twelfth Night and Macbeth, and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. I read the Œdipus Tyrannus and the Œdipus Coloneus, De Quincey's Glories of Stage Coach Travelling and Revolt of the Tartars, and the greater part of Shelley's poems.” GEL 2: 358
1857-05-13: "13. Went to Falmouth outside the omnibus -a sufficiently pleasant drive, though cold. Got down at the Green Bank, lunched and walked to the Castle, and read "Emma" in the evening." Diary 1854-1861 69
1875-09-24 to 10-09: "[George Eliot] and [George Henry Lewes] returned to the Priory 23 September 1875. Finding the drawing room still unpapered and the whole house smelling of paint, they set out the next morning for Shrewsbury. After three days there they went on for brief stays at Aberystwith, Barmouth, Dolgelley, Carnarvon, Llanberis, and Chester, reaching home 9 October to find "the Priory still in the hands of the paper hangers!" During their trip [Eliot] read aloud Jane Austen's Emma, Dickens's Uncommercial Traveller, Turgenev's Nouvelles Moscovites and Récits d'un chasseur, and Sterne's Sentimental Journey." GEL 6: 171f
1857-05-13: "13. Went to Falmouth outside the omnibus -a sufficiently pleasant drive, though cold. Got down at the Green Bank, lunched and walked to the Castle, and read "Emma" in the evening." Diary 1854-1861 69
1875-09-24 to 10-09: "[George Eliot] and [George Henry Lewes] returned to the Priory 23 September 1875. Finding the drawing room still unpapered and the whole house smelling of paint, they set out the next morning for Shrewsbury. After three days there they went on for brief stays at Aberystwith, Barmouth, Dolgelley, Carnarvon, Llanberis, and Chester, reaching home 9 October to find "the Priory still in the hands of the paper hangers!" During their trip [Eliot] read aloud Jane Austen's Emma, Dickens's Uncommercial Traveller, Turgenev's Nouvelles Moscovites and Récits d'un chasseur, and Sterne's Sentimental Journey." GEL 6: 171f
Citation
Austen, Jane, Emma: A Novel, 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/57489