George Eliot (74 page)

75
.
Letters
, III, 124.

76
. Ibid., II, 494.

77
. Ibid., III, 3.

78
. Ibid., III, 13.

79
. Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 278.

80
.
Letters
, VIII, 257n.

81
. GHL, Journal, 24 March 1859,
Letters
, III, 49n.

82
.
Letters
, III, 170n.

83
. Ibid., III, 56.

84
. Ibid., III, 65.

85
. Ibid., III, 106.

86
. Ibid., III, 41.

87
. Ibid., III, 124.

88
. Ibid., III, 112.

89
. Ibid., III, 118.

90
. GE, Journal, 31 December 1858, MS Yale.

91
.
Letters
, III, 91.

92
. Ibid., III, 103.

93
. Ibid., III, 62n.

94
. Quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 299.

95
.
Letters
, III, 79.

96
. Ibid., III, 116.

97
. Ibid., VIII, 142n.

98
. Ibid., VIII, 250.

99
. Ibid., III, 33n.

100
.
The Mill on the Floss
, p. 54, Bk.1, ch.1.

101
. Ibid., p. 55, Bk.1, ch.1.

102
. Ibid., p. 362, Bk.4, ch.1.

103
. Ibid., p. 363, Bk.4, ch.1.

104
. Ibid.

105
. Ibid., p. 405, Bk.5, ch.2.

106
. Ibid., p. 60, Bk.1, ch.2.

107
. Ibid., p. 655, Bk.7, ch.5.

108
.
Letters
, III, 269.

109
. Ibid., III, 285.

110
.
The Mill on the Floss
, p. 91, Bk.1, ch.5.

111
. Ibid., p. 628, Bk.7, ch.2.

112
. Ibid., p. 612, Bk.7, ch.1.

113
. Ibid., pp. 613–14, Bk.7, ch.1.

114
. Ibid., p. 621, Bk.7, ch.2.

C
HAPTER 11
‘Pure, Natural Human Relations’

1
.
Letters
, III, 244.

2
. Ibid., III, 245.

3
. Ibid., III, 256, 259n.

4
.
The Mill on the Floss
, p. 113, Bk.1, ch.7.

5
.
Letters
, III, 277, 276.

6
. Ibid., III, 289.

7
. Ibid., III, 290.

8
. Ibid., III, 292.

9
.
The Times
, 19 May 1860, Carroll,
Critical Heritage
, p. 131;
Letters
, III, 299.

10
.
Macmillan
’s, 3 April 1861,
Letters
, III, 397.

11
.
Letters
, III, 296.

12
. Ibid., III, 297.

13
. GHL, Journal, 7 April 1860, quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, pp. 323–4.

14
.
Letters
, III, 288.

15
. ‘Recollections of Italy, 1860’, GE, Journal, MS Yale.

16
.
Middlemarch
, p. 194, Bk.2, ch.20.

17
.
Letters
, III, 231.

18
. Ibid., III, 366n.

19
.
Silas Marner
, pp. 135–6, ch.10.

20
.
Letters
, III, 366.

21
. Ibid., VIII, 259–60.

22
. Ibid., III, 327.

23
. Ibid., III, 474.

24
. Ibid., VIII, 295.

25
. Ibid., IV, 117.

26
. GE, Journal, 17 December 1860, MS Yale.

27
.
Letters
, III, 363.

28
. Quoted Bodenheimer,
The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans
, p. 190.

29
. My discussion of GE’s relationship with her stepsons is indebted to Bodenheimer, ch.7, pp. 189–231.

30
. GHL, Journal, 26–8 June 1860,
Letters
, III, 309.

31
.
Letters
, III, 421.

32
. Ibid., III, 324.

33
. Ibid., III, 448.

34
. Ibid., IV, 34.

35
. Quoted Bodenheimer,
The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans
, p. 199.

36
.
Letters
, III, 343; see illustration no. 18.

37
.
Letters
, III, 339.

38
. GE, Journal, 28 November 1860, MS Yale.

39
.
Silas Marner
, p. 53, ch.1.

40
.
Letters
, III, 371.

41
. Ibid., III, 427.

42
.
Silas Marner
, p. 54, ch.1.

43
. GE, Journal, 28 November 1860, MS Yale.

44
.
Letters
, III, 372n.

45
. See Redinger,
George Eliot
, p. 235.

46
.
Letters
, III, 393.

47
.
Silas Marner
, pp. 214–15, ch.17.

48
.
Letters
, III, 117, 335.

49
. Ibid., III, 379.

50
. Ibid., III, 382.

51
. Ibid., III, 386.

52
. GHL, Journal, 3–6 June 1861,
Letters
, III, 424.

53
.
Letters
, III, 394n.

54
. GE, Journal, quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, pp. 350–1.

55
.
Letters
, III, 420.

56
. Ibid., III, 427.

57
. Ibid., III, 474.

58
. Ibid., IV, 3.

59
. GHL, Journal, November 1859,
Letters
, IX, 345.

60
. GE, Journal, 31 January, 17 February 1862, MS Yale.

61
. Cross,
Life
, II, 255.

62
.
Letters
, VIII, 303.

63
.
Romola
(1863), ed. Andrew Sanders (Harmondsworth, 1980), pp. 58–9, Bk.1, ch.1.

64
. Ibid., p. 420, Bk.2, ch.39.

65
.
Letters
, IV, 6–7.

66
. Ibid., IV, 15–16, 18.

67
. GHL, Journal, 27 February 1862,
Letters
, IV, 17–18.

68
. GHL, Journal, 1 March 1862,
Letters
, IV, 20.

69
. GHL, Journal, 8 May, 8 April 1862,
Letters
, IV, 29, 24.

70
. GHL, Journal, 17 May 1862,
Letters
, IV, 33–4.

71
.
Letters
, IV, 34–5.

72
. Ibid., IV, 36n.

73
. Ibid., IV, 38 and n.

74
. Ibid., IV, 44.

75
. GE, Journal, 30 September 1862, MS Yale.

76
.
Letters
, IV, 58–9.

77
. Ibid., VIII, 304.

78
. The phrase comes from Margaret Oliphant, another Blackwood writer, who had no choice but
to write for the market. Margaret Oliphant,
Autobiography and Letters
(Edinburgh, 1899), p. 5.

79
.
Letters
, IV, 97.

80
. GHL, Journal, 18 April 1862, Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 395.

81
.
Letters
, IV, 102.

82
. Ibid., III, 462.

83
. Ibid., IV, 84.

84
. Ibid., IV, 212.

85
. Ibid., IV, 233.

86
. Ibid., IV, 34, 48.

87
. Ibid., III, 387.

88
. Ibid., III, 398.

89
. Ibid., III, 366.

90
. Ibid., III, 396.

91
. GE, Journal, 19 June 1861, MS Yale,
Letters
, III, 427–8.

92
. Quoted Ashton,
George Eliot: A Life
, p. 268.

93
. GHL, Journal, 1–13 November 1863,
Letters
, IV, 111–12.

94
.
Letters
, IV, 116.

C
HAPTER
12 ‘The Bent of My Mind Is Conservative’

1
.
Letters
, IV, 68.

2
. Henry James to William James, 1 May 1878,
Letters of Henry James
, ed. Leon Edel, 4 vols (London 1974–84), II, 72.

3
. Lady Amberley, quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 391.

4
.
Letters
, IV, 17.

5
. Ibid., IV, 417.

6
. Ibid., IV, 175.

7
. Ibid., IV, 232.

8
. Ibid., IV, 268–9.

9
. Ibid., IV, 130–1.

10
. Ibid., IV, 134.

11
. Ibid., VIII, 316–17.

12
. Ibid., IV, 140.

13
. Ibid.

14
. Fanny Houghton to Isaac Evans, 11 December, and 13 June 1866, quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, pp. 393–4.

15
.
Letters
, IV, 299.

16
. Ibid., IV, 179.

17
. Ibid., IV, 183.

18
. GHL, Diary, 16 January 1874,
Letters
, VI, 6n.

19
. ‘The Influence of Rationalism’,
Fortnightly Review
(15 May 1865), reprinted
George Eliot: Selected Essays
, pp. 389–404.

20
.
Letters
, IV, 159.

21
. Ibid., IV, 214.

22
. Ibid., IV, 472.

23
. Ibid., IV, 284–9.

24
. Ibid., IV, 300–1.

25
. Richard Congreve to Sophie Edger, 10 May 1880, quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 302.

26
.
Letters
, IV, 200.

27
. G. H. Lewes, Prospectus for the
Fortnightly Review
, March 1865,
Letters
, VIII, 336.

28
.
Letters
, IV, 438.

29
. Ibid., IV, 16.

30
. Ibid., IV, 72.

31
. Ibid., IV, 374–5.

32
. Ibid., IV, 375n.

33
. Ibid., IV, 472.

34
. Ibid., IV, 496.

35
. Ibid., IV, 390.

36
. Ibid., IV, 390.

37
. Ibid., IV, 425.

38
. Ibid., VIII, 402.

39
. Ibid., IV, 399.

40
.
Felix Holt, The Radical
, p. 76, Author’s Introduction.

41
. ‘Occurrences at Nuneaton’, MS Nuneaton.

42
.
Felix Holt
, p. 75, Author’s Introduction.

43
. Ibid., p. 400, ch.30.

44
. Ibid., p. 145, ch.5.

45
. Ibid., p. 101, ch.1.

46
. GE, Journal, 24 December 1865, MS Yale.

47
. GHL, Journal, 1 June 1866,
Letters
, IV, 265.

48
.
Letters
, IV, 244.

49
. Ibid., IV, 24on.

50
. Ibid., IV, 241.

51
. Ibid., IV, 243.

52
. Ibid., IV, 246.

53
. ‘Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt’,
Westminster Review
(January 1868), reprinted
George Eliot, Selected Critical Writings
, pp. 338–54.

54
. John Morley, unsigned review,
Saturday Review
, 16 June 1866, XXI, 722–4, Carroll,
Critical Heritage
, pp. 251–7.

55
. Henry James,
Nation
, August 1866, Carroll,
Critical Heritage
, pp. 273–5.

56
.
Letters
, VIII, 378.

57
. Ibid., IV, 285.

58
. Quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, pp. 334–5.