Titlebook: Marian Evans (George Eliot); A Literary Life Kerry McSweeney Book 1991 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991

宠爱

,Warwickshire 1819–1849,he ‘Introduction’ to . ., which describes what could be seen in the early 1830s from the outside of a stage coach travelling through ‘that central plain, watered at one extremity by the Avon, at the other by the Trent’:

Cryptic

The Woman Question / , (1860),specific references stopped, and in time it became well-known that the author of the George Eliot novels was a woman. But most readers and reviewers of the . and . were not as perceptive as Dickens, who immediately guessed from internal evidence that their author was a woman.

沙文主义

inconceivable

(1858) and , (1861),‘unfolded itself from the merest millet-seed of thought’: the ‘recollection of having once, in early childhood, seen a linen-weaver with a bag on his back’ and an ’expression of face’ that led her to think ‘he was an alien from his fellows’ (., iii, 128–9; ii, 502; iii, 371, 382, 427).

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pulmonary-edema

,London 1850–1857,Geneva for the next eight months — living first in a pension on the lake and then as a lodger in the home of M. D’Albert and his family. While at the former, Marian entertained her correspondents back in England with descriptions of the other guests, including two American ladies who ‘chatter the mo

高调

Critical Writings / , (1858),pinions of which closely resemble those of the Evangelical .. Novels and romances were ‘pernicious’, and Marian feared she would carry ‘to my grave the mental diseases with which they have contaminated me’. They had fed her dissatisfaction with the circumstances of her life and encouraged her to liv

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The Woman Question / , (1860),s of the narrator. There are several examples of the latter in .: ‘Let me discover that the lovely Phoebe thinks my squint intolerable’, we hear on one occasion, ‘and I shall never be able to fix her blandly with my disengaged eye again’; and in another place, the narrator recalls that ‘he’ had once

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