Beverley Park Rilett

What George Eliot Read: The George Eliot Archive ’s Reading Project and the Making of an Open-Access Digital Library

This article describes the construction and scholarly rationale of George Eliot’s Reading, an open-access digital library of 923 texts that Eliot documented reading over her lifetime, launched in 2025 as a subproject of the George Eliot Archive. The premise is straightforward: gather the primary-source evidence that...