George Eliot (71 page)

3
.
Letters
, I, 193.

4
. Ibid., I, 194.

5
. Kathleen Adams,
Those of Us Who Loved Her: The Men in George Eliot’s Life
(Warwick, 1980), pp. 52–6.

6
. John Chapman, Diary, 27 June 1851, Gordon S. Haight,
George Eliot and John Chapman
(London, 1940), pp. 184–5.

7
. Bray,
Phases
, p. 125.

8
. Simcox,
Autobiography
, 12 June 1885, McKenzie, p. 131.

9
. Quoted Laski,
George Eliot
, p. 95.

10
. Cross,
Life
, I, 160.

11
. Cross,
Life
(1886), I, 399.

12
. See illustration no. 10.

13
. Bray,
Phases
, p. 75.

14
. Ibid., p. 73.

15
. Cross, Life, I, 160; Cross,
Life
(1886), I, 402.

16
.
Letters
, I, 144.

17
. Cross,
Life
(1886), I, 406.

18
. Ibid., I, 407.

19
. Ibid., I, 406.

20
. Ibid., I, 412.

21
.
Letters
, I, 150.

22
. Ibid., I, 164.

23
. Ibid., I, 165.

24
. Ibid., I, 167.

25
. Chapman, Diary, 27 June 1851,
George Eliot and John Chapman
, p. 186.

26
. Anna Kitchel,
George Lewes and George Eliot
(New York, 1933), p. 314.

27
. Cross,
Life
(1886), I, 398.

28
.
Letters
, I, 136.

29
. Ibid., I, 142.

30
. Ibid., I, 154.

31
. Ibid., I, 158.

32
. Ibid., I, 158n.

33
. Ibid., I, 167–8.

34
. Ibid., I, 225.

35
. Ibid., I, 231.

36
. Ibid., I, 236n.

37
. Ibid., I, 363.

38
. Ibid., I, 364.

39
. Laski,
George Eliot
, p. 94.

40
. Cross,
Life
, I, 36.

41
.
Letters
, I, 194.

42
. Ibid., I, 205–6.

43
. Ibid., I, 176.

44
. Ibid., I, 208.

45
. Ibid., I, 185.

46
. David Friedrich Strauss,
The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined
, tr. from the 4th German Edition (1846), (New York, 1855), p. 69.

47
.
Letters
, I, 203.

48
. Strauss,
The Life of Jesus
, p. 636.

49
.
Letters
, I, 206.

50
. Ibid., I, 218.

51
. Ibid., I, 190–1.

52
. ‘accurate and perceptive’.

53
.
Letters, II
, 171.

54
. Ibid., I, 191.

55
. Ibid., VIII, 384.

56
. Quoted Cross,
Life
, 1,151.

57
.
Letters
, I, 214–15.

58
. Ibid., I, 147.

59
. Ibid., I, 240–1.

60
. Ibid., I, 279.

61
. Simcox,
Autobiography
, 12 June 1885, McKenzie, p. 131.

62
.
Letters
, I, 277.

63
. Ibid., I, 277–8.

64
. Ibid., I, 184.

65
. Ibid., I, 184.

66
. Ibid., I, 186.

67
. Ibid., I, 188.

68
. Ibid., I, 186.

69
. Ibid., I, 179.

70
. Ibid., I, I78n.

71
. Ibid., I, 180.

72
. Ibid., I, 18on.

73
. Ibid., I, 271n.

74
. Ibid., I, 245.

75
. Ibid., I, 254.

76
. Ibid., I, 251, 255.

77
. Cross,
Life
(1886), I, 412.

78
.
Letters
, I, 260–1.

79
. Ibid., I, 306.

80
. Ibid., I, 309.

81
. Ibid., I, 315.

82
. Ibid., VIII, 12–14.

C
HAPTER
5 ‘The Land of Duty and Affection’

1
.
Letters
, I, 141 and n.

2
. Ibid., II, 97.

3
.
The Mill on the Floss
, p. 139, Bk. 1, ch.8.

4
. Cross,
Life
(1886), I, 409–10.

5
.
Letters
, I, 268.

6
. Ibid., I, 188.

7
. See p. 216.

8
. The five sketches appeared between December 1846 and February 1847 and are reprinted in
The Essays of George Eliot
, ed. Thomas Pinney (New York, 1963).

9
. ‘Brothers in Opinion: Edgar Quinet and Jules Michelet’, reprinted
George Eliot: Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
, ed. A. S. Byatt and Nicholas Warren (Harmondsworth, 1990), pp. 261–4.

10
.
Letters
, I, 200n.

11
. Ibid., I, 263.

12
. Ibid., I, 266.

13
. Ibid., I, 265.

14
. Ibid., I, 264.

15
. Cross,
Life
, I, 204.

16
.
Letters
, I, 264.

17
. Ibid., I, 28on.

18
. Ibid., I, 276.

19
. Ibid., I, 283–4.

20
. Ibid., I, 272.

21
. Ibid., I, 284.

22
. ‘J. A. Froude’s
The Nemesis of Faith’, Coventry Herald
, 16 March 1849, reprinted
George Eliot: Selected Essays
, p. 265.

23
.
Letters
, I, 279n.

24
. Ibid., I, 280.

25
. Bray,
Phases
, p. 75.

26
.
Letters
, III, 321.

27
. Ibid., I, 261.

28
. Ibid., I, 289.

29
. Cross,
Life
, I, 208.

30
.
Letters
, I, 308.

31
. Ibid., I, 297.

32
. Ibid., I, 298.

33
. Ibid., I, 290–1.

34
. Ibid., I, 298.

35
. Ibid., I, 308.

36
. Ibid., I, 301.

37
. Ibid., I, 292.

38
. Ibid., I, 308.

39
. Ibid., I, 301–2.

40
. Ibid., I, 309.

41
. Ibid., I, 314–15.

42
. Ibid., I, 294.

43
. Ibid., I, 289.

44
. Ibid., I, 303–4.

45
. Ibid., I, 327.

46
. Ibid., I, 302.

47
. Ibid., I, 307.

48
. Ibid., I, 320.

49
. Ibid., I, 324.

50
. Ibid., I, 307.

51
. Ibid., I, 328.

52
. Ibid., I, 317.

53
. Ibid.

54
. Ibid., I, 316.

55
. Ibid., I, 322, 318.

56
. Ibid., I, 316–17.

57
. Ibid., I, 330.

58
. Ibid., I, 328.

59
. Ibid., I, 330.

60
. Ibid., I, lxiv.

61
. Blind,
George Eliot
, p. 53.

62
. Cross,
Life
, I, 231.

63
.
Letters
, I, 321.

64
. Ibid., I, 322.

65
. Ibid., I, 335.

66
. Ibid., I, 336.

67
. Ibid., I, 334.

68
. Ibid., I, 335.

69
. Ibid., I, 335n.

70
. Ibid., I, 225n.

71
. For an account of Chapman’s early life see Haight,
George Eliot and John Chapman
.

72
.
Letters
, I, 231.

73
. ‘R. W. Mackay’s
The Progress of the Intellect’, Westminster Review
, January 1851, reprinted
George Eliot: Selected Essays
, pp. 268–85.

74
.
Letters
, I, 337.

75
. Chapman, Diary, 10 August 1851,
George Eliot and John Chapman
, p. 200.

76
. Ibid., 24 July 1860, p. 246.

77
. Ibid.

78
. Ibid., 30 July 1851, p. 196.

79
. Ibid., 8 January 1851, p. 129.

80
. Ibid., 9 January 1851, p. 129.

C
HAPTER
6 ‘The Most Important Means of Enlightenment’

1
. Haight,
George Eliot and John Chapman
, p. 114.

2
. Ibid., pp. 87–92.

3
. For an account of Chapman’s 1851 Diary, see Haight,
George Eliot and John Chapman
, pp. 123–220.

4
. Ibid., 8 January 1851,
George Eliot and John Chapman
, p. 129.

5
. Ibid., 12 January 1851, p. 131.

6
. Ibid., 18–19 January 1851, pp. 133–4.

7
. Ibid., 22 January 1851, pp. 135–6.

8
. Ibid., 18 February 1851, pp. 140–1.

9
. Ibid., 11 January 1851, p. 130.

10
. Ibid., 12 January 1851, p. 131.

11
.
Letters
, I, 346.

12
. It has always been assumed that Marian failed to get any commissions during this trial period at The Strand. But recently Rosemary Ashton has argued that the
Leader
published two pieces from her on Harriet Martineau’s new book. See Rosemary Ashton,
George Eliot: A Life
(London, 1996), pp. 81–2.

13
. Chapman, Diary, 21 February 1851,
George Eliot and John Chapman
, P. 143.

14
. Ibid., 19–23 March 1851, pp. 146–7.

15
. Ibid., 24 March 1851, p. 147.

16
. Ibid., 25 March 1851, p. 148.

17
.
Letters
, I, 348.

18
. Chapman, Diary, 21 April 1851,
George Eliot and John Chapman
, p. 157.

19
. Ibid., 28 April 1851, p. 160.

20
. Ibid., 27 May 1851, p. 171.

21
. Ibid., 30 May 1851, p. 172.

22
. Ibid., 10 October 1851, p. 218.

23
. Ibid., 31 May 1851, p. 173.

24
. Ibid., 5 June 1851, p. 175.

25
. Ibid., 2 June 1851, p. 174.

26
. Ibid., 15 June 1851, p. 179.

27
. Ibid., 16 June 1851, p. 179.

28
. Ibid., 21 June 1851, p. 182.

29
. Ibid., 15 August 1851, pp. 201–2.

30
. The Prospectus is reprinted in
George Eliot: Selected Essays
, pp. 3–7.

31
.
Letters
, VIII, 23.

32
. Chapman, Diary, 10 June 1851,
George Eliot and John Chapman
, pp. 176–7.

33
. Ibid., 7 June 1851, p. 176.

34
. Ibid., 21–22 August 1851, p. 204.

35
. Ibid., 21 September 1851, p. 213.

36
.
Letters
, II, 206.

37
. Ibid., II, 208.

38
. Chapman, Diary, 23 September 1851,
George Eliot and John Chapman
, p. 213.

39
.
Letters
, I, 371.

40
. Ibid., I, 377.

41
. Ibid., I, 378.