Lizzie’s Reviews > My Life in Middlemarch > Status Update

From the notes: As of this writing, George Eliot's desk is no longer on display at the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery; it was stolen in 2012. IT WHAT?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The landscape itself had been transformed by the reading of books. The trees were there because ordinary children … had learned their letters. That's an awesome ending.

In 1853 Oxford University Press published a curious volume called Mary Garth: A Romance from "Middlemarch," in which an editor, Frederick Page, detached the love story of Fred and Mary from the web of the novel proper. Well that seems a tad unlikely for an 1871 novel! (It was, of course, 1953.)

For Eliot, being sensitive to one's memories of childhood is a sign of moral maturity.

Eliot is the great artist of disappointment.

"They used to wander about the neighbourhood, the biggest pair of frights that ever was, followed by a shaggy little dog who could do tricks." !!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3

Not sure I've heard this bookshop meeting story for Eliot & Lewes before. I think I've always read it was via socializing with Spencer? This is cuter; must corroborate.

Too-lateness of this sort is Casaubon's condition.

LOVE this part about the proto-Casaubons that Eliot knew. How fun it would have been to add in a lady-Ladislaw for Casaubon, in the novel.