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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.
— Feb 20, 2014 09:53PM
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Lizzie
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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?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— Feb 20, 2014 10:17PM
Lizzie
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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.)
— Feb 20, 2014 09:45PM
Lizzie
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For Eliot, being sensitive to one's memories of childhood is a sign of moral maturity.
— Feb 20, 2014 09:31PM
Lizzie
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"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
— Feb 19, 2014 12:49PM
Lizzie
is on page 179 of 293
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.
— Feb 19, 2014 12:15PM
Lizzie
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Too-lateness of this sort is Casaubon's condition.
— Feb 19, 2014 11:43AM
Lizzie
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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.
— Feb 18, 2014 05:35PM
Lizzie
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What becomes of the brilliant young woman who knowingly forfeits reciprocal love, after disillusionment with her spouse sets in? There's a subject for a novel.
— Feb 15, 2014 10:13PM
