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... George Eliot and Meredith . In education and interests both were out of the common run of English novelists . George Eliot was thirty - eight when she wrote her first fictions . Until then , she had worked as a rationalist journalist ...
... George Eliot and Meredith . In education and interests both were out of the common run of English novelists . George Eliot was thirty - eight when she wrote her first fictions . Until then , she had worked as a rationalist journalist ...
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... George Eliot was using the memories of her childhood , but it seems to me as certain as such things can be that she is remembering her childhood through Scott . It has been debated endlessly which is the better in the rendering of rural ...
... George Eliot was using the memories of her childhood , but it seems to me as certain as such things can be that she is remembering her childhood through Scott . It has been debated endlessly which is the better in the rendering of rural ...
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... George Eliot's conception . She is the largest character and the one nearest to the heroic . The wonder is that we do not think George Eliot's claims for her are inordinate . For in Middlemarch George Eliot is investigating human ...
... George Eliot's conception . She is the largest character and the one nearest to the heroic . The wonder is that we do not think George Eliot's claims for her are inordinate . For in Middlemarch George Eliot is investigating human ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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