Word: middlemarch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quotation from her paper sticks in my head. Things aren't so bad for you and me as they might have been, George Eliot wrote in Middlemarch, because of those who faithfully lived hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Things aren't so bad for you and me, things aren...
Through much of her career, the author of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch commanded great critical and public esteem. But her reputation began to decline with the new century until the epochal year 1933. It was then that a young American instructor named Gordon Haight came across a cache of Eliot letters in the Yale University Library. For the next 50 years Haight devoted himself to the correspondence. He became the general editor of the definitive Clarendon Edition of Eliot's novels and, in 1968, produced a fine, now standard biography. Haight's crowning achievement...
...Eliot moved in with Lewes she began writing Scenes of Clerical Life. Lewes coaxed novel after novel out of Eliot, while buttressing her self-esteem and shielding her from bad reviews. Even the ostracism she suffered gave her time to work. As Rose points out, the author of Middlemarch did not have to give dinner parties or entertain weekend guests. Ellot's was a fate that women, especially those who write, may envy...
...Middlemarch, by George Eliot...
...have done," wrote Novelist George Eliot of her 24-year, live-in liaison with another woman's husband. "They obtain what they desire and are still invited to dinner." However, Eliot suffered for her devotion to Writer Henry Lewes. Not only was the author of Middlemarch scorned at many a Victorian's table, but she was denied her final desire: burial in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner, where writers from Chaucer to the Brontës have a monument or tomb. A week ago, Eliot at last got her place among the poets. In a centennial...