Sainte-Beuve; No Specific Text Given [x]
Title
Sainte-Beuve; No Specific Text Given [x]
Text Read
Sainte-Beuve; No Specific Text Given [x]
Author
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin [?]
Original Source
Unknown
Digitized by
Not Applicable
Publication Date
Unknown
Date(s) of Reading
- 1854-08-05
- 1869-08-01
- 1877-[06-10]-[?]
- 1879-04-20
Evidence
1854-08-05: "5 Sat. We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud. A letter from Mr. Chapman, proposing to me to write an article on Victor Cousin's Mde. de Sable. We ordered the book at the "Hof-Buchhandlung", a modest shop in the Markt Platz. In the evening we walked to Tiefurt, and were delighted with the grounds there." Diary 1854-1861 19
1869-08-01: "Aug. 1. Since last Sunday I have had an uncomfortable week from mental and bodily disturbance. I have finished eleven Sonnets on "Brother and Sister", read Littre, Nisard; part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings. On Thursday: the evening was occupied with Gertrude and Charles, Monday evening with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty. On Tuesday afternoon we went to the British Museum to see a new bronze, and I was enchanted with some fragments of glass in the Slade Collection, with dyes of sunset in them. Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakspeare's sonnets. Poor Thornie has had a miserably unsatisfactory week, making no progress. After lunch came Miss N. Smith and Miss Blythe, Mr. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Burne Jones and Mr. Sanderson." Diary 1861-1877 137
1877-[06-10]-[?]: "Their reading at Witley included a few old favourites--The Heart of Midlothian, The Legend of Montrose, Sir Charles Grandison, and Les Trois Mousquetaires. Lewes's Diary also mentions a number of recent novels--Trollope's The American Senator, Reade's A Woman Hater, Turgenev's Les Terres vierges, Zola's L'Assommoir, and The Pilot and His Wife by the Norwegian novelist Jonas Lie--Cobbett's works, Tennyson's dramas and The Idylls of the King, Daudet, Sainte-Beuve, and Mme D'Agoult's Memoires (probably suggested by the Wagners' visit). There is one bare reference to Edith Simcox's Natural Law. She was not invited to the Heights; no letter acknowledged the dedication." Gordon S. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press 1968. p. 505.
1879-04-20: "Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve. Isaiah. Herbert Spencer in the afternoon asking advice about his autobiography." Diary 1879 171
1869-08-01: "Aug. 1. Since last Sunday I have had an uncomfortable week from mental and bodily disturbance. I have finished eleven Sonnets on "Brother and Sister", read Littre, Nisard; part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings. On Thursday: the evening was occupied with Gertrude and Charles, Monday evening with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty. On Tuesday afternoon we went to the British Museum to see a new bronze, and I was enchanted with some fragments of glass in the Slade Collection, with dyes of sunset in them. Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakspeare's sonnets. Poor Thornie has had a miserably unsatisfactory week, making no progress. After lunch came Miss N. Smith and Miss Blythe, Mr. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Burne Jones and Mr. Sanderson." Diary 1861-1877 137
1877-[06-10]-[?]: "Their reading at Witley included a few old favourites--The Heart of Midlothian, The Legend of Montrose, Sir Charles Grandison, and Les Trois Mousquetaires. Lewes's Diary also mentions a number of recent novels--Trollope's The American Senator, Reade's A Woman Hater, Turgenev's Les Terres vierges, Zola's L'Assommoir, and The Pilot and His Wife by the Norwegian novelist Jonas Lie--Cobbett's works, Tennyson's dramas and The Idylls of the King, Daudet, Sainte-Beuve, and Mme D'Agoult's Memoires (probably suggested by the Wagners' visit). There is one bare reference to Edith Simcox's Natural Law. She was not invited to the Heights; no letter acknowledged the dedication." Gordon S. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press 1968. p. 505.
1879-04-20: "Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve. Isaiah. Herbert Spencer in the afternoon asking advice about his autobiography." Diary 1879 171
Citation
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin [?], Sainte-Beuve; No Specific Text Given [x], 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/57894