Twelfth Night
Title
Twelfth Night
Text Read
Twelfth Night
Author
Shakespeare, William. ed. Alexander Chalmers
Original Source
London: Bohn, 1854. The Complete Works of Shakespeare with a Memoir. pp. 209-24
Digitized by
Internet Archive
Publication Date
1854
Date(s) of Reading
- 1855-01-13
- 1857-03-15 to 05-16
Evidence
1855-01-13: "Saturday 13. Staid at home this evening and read G's MS. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night." Diary 1854-1861 43
1857-03-15 to 05-16: 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, 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
1857-03-15 to 05-16: 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, 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
Citation
Shakespeare, William. ed. Alexander Chalmers, Twelfth Night, 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/57589