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Eliot's dark but quiet rooms were at the rear of the house. "I can see her now, with her hair over her shoulders, the easy chair half sideways to the fire, her feet over the arms, and a proof in her hands," William Hale White, a fellow resident of the establishment, recalled after her death, providing a physical description that seems startlingly modern.
— Dec 05, 2014 02:41AM
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'To know her was to love her,' [Lewes] wrote in his diary in 1859, recalling their first acquaintance. 'Since then my life has been a new birth. To her I owe all my prosperity & all my happiness. God bless her!' The sense of grateful, joyful indebtedness was mutual. The name under which she became famous was a tribute to him: she was George because he was George.
— Jan 02, 2015 10:41AM
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A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.
— Dec 04, 2014 07:36AM
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In 1869, the year she started writing the story that would end up being Book Two of Middlemarch, Eliot described her conflict with her father to Emily Davies, the founder of Girton College, the first women's college at Cambridge. Yay Girton!
— Nov 20, 2014 11:52AM
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Coventry was chosen over the countryside because if a husband was to be found for Mary Ann that was where he might most likely be encountered. She hated being nudged out of her home, not least because of the crude dynamics of the matrimonial marketplace upon which she, a complicated commodity, was being floated. "It is like dying to one stage of existence," she wrote to a friend.
— Nov 16, 2014 05:22AM
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Intellectual passion—a love for that "which must be wooed with industrious thought and patient renunciation of small desires"—is rarely accorded the attention that romantic love commands, as Eliot points out; but the reader whom Eliot addresses will likely recognize this other, overlooked passion, because the chances are that he or she has felt it, too.
— Nov 15, 2014 01:20PM
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Eliot's delineation of the growing attachment between Lydgate and Rosamond is delicious if more than slightly horrifying to read....Watching them make their way towards marriage—she concertedly, he obliviously—has an appalling satisfaction for connoisseurs of romantic plots.
— Nov 15, 2014 01:16PM
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In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot presents a natural history of yearning.
— Nov 14, 2014 11:01AM
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Books gave us a way to shape ourselves—to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothing.
— Nov 12, 2014 11:20AM
