Margaret Mason’s Reviews > Small Things Like These > Status Update

Succinct, clear, and meaningful. I loved the end. Reminded me a bit of Middlemarch’s end.

“The effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” - Eliot