George Eliot (75 page)

59
.
Letters
, IV, 103–4n.

60
. Ibid., IV, 28–9.

61
. Ibid., IV, 193.

62
. Ibid., IV, 447.

63
. Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 398.

64
. Scott,
Autobiographical Notes
, II, 271.

65
.
Letters
, IV, 397.

66
. Ibid., IV, 473.

67
. Oscar Browning,
Life of George Eliot
(London, 1890), pp. 96–7.

68
. Quoted Ashton,
George Eliot: A Life
, p. 271.

69
. GHL, Journal, 5 May 1867,
Letters
, IV, 360.

70
. Lady Amberley, Diary, 5 May 1867,
Letters
, VIII, 399n.

71
.
Letters
, IV, 336.

72
. Ibid., IV, 346.

73
.
Leader
(31 January 1852), p. 580.

74
. Cross,
Life
, III, p. 42.

75
. GE, Journal, 5 December 1864–21 February 1865, MS Yale.

76
.
Letters
, IV, 289.

77
. Ibid., IV, 320–3.

78
. For an account of this trip see GE’s and GHL’s letters home,
Letters
, IV, 343–9.

79
. Ibid., IV, 353.

80
. Ibid., IV, 354.

81
. Ibid., IV, 394–8.

82
.
The Spanish Gypsy
, in
Collected Poems
, pp. 201–456.

83
. For a summary of critical reactions, see Haight,
George Eliot
, pp. 404–5.

84
.
Letters
, IV, 486.

85
. Ibid., IV, 413.

86
.
Felix Holt
, Dedication.

87
.
Letters
, IV, 34.

88
. Ibid., IV, 154.

89
. Ibid., IV, 155.

90
. Ibid., IV, 311–12.

91
. Ibid., IV, 140.

92
. Ibid., VIII, 431–4.

93
. Henry James to his father,
Henry James Letters
, I, 116–17.

94
.
Letters
, V, 53.

95
. Ibid., V, 41.

96
. ‘German Wit: Heinrich Heine’,
Westminster Review
(January 1856), reprinted
George Eliot, Selected Critical Writings
, pp. 193–233.

97
. GE, Journal, 19 October 1869, MS Yale.

C
HAPTER
13 ‘Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings’

1
.
Letters
, V, 66.

2
. Ibid., V, 93.

3
. Ibid., V, 84.

4
. GHL, Journal, 25 March 1870,
Letters
, V, 85n.

5
. GE, Journal, 1 January 1869, MS Yale.

6
.
Letters
, V, 16.

7
. Ibid., V, 403; ‘Brother and Sister’ sonnets,
Collected Poems
, pp. 84–90.

8
. ‘The Legend of Jubal’,
Collected Poems
, pp. 91–114.

9
. ‘Armgart’,
Collected Poems
, pp. 115–51.

10
. Ibid., p. 128.

11
. Ibid., p. 129, 133.

12
. Ibid., p. 143.

13
.
Letters
, V, 253.

14
. Ibid., V, 31.

15
. Ibid., IV, 499.

16
. Ibid., V, 192.

17
. Haight,
George Eliot
, P. 454.

18
. Ibid.

19
.
Letters
, V, 175.

20
. Ibid., V, 185.

21
. Ibid., V, 207.

22
. Ibid., V, 197.

23
. Ibid., V, 275.

24
. Ibid., V, 361.

25
. Haight,
George Eliot
, pp. 452–3.

26
. Quoted Laski,
George Eliot
, p. 98.

27
.
Letters
, V, 7–9.

28
. Ibid., V, 37.

29
. Ibid., V, 170.

30
. Ibid., V, 180-In.

31
. GE, Journal, 25–8 May 1870, MS Yale.

32
. Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 426.

33
. Oscar Browning,
George Eliot
, p. 99.

34
. F. W. H. Myers,
Century Magazine
23 (November 1881), 62.

35
. ‘A College Breakfast-Party’,
Collected Poems
, pp. 160–84.

36
.
Letters
, V, 144.

37
. GE, Journal, 27 October 1870, MS Yale.

38
. Quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 440n.

39
.
Letters
, V, 341.

40
. Ibid., V, 52.

41
. Ibid., V, 367.

42
. Ibid., V, 301.

43
. Ibid., VIII, 482–3.

44
. Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 451.

45
.
Letters
, I, lxxvii.

46
. Ibid., V, 132–3.

47
. Ibid., IV, 404.

48
. Ibid., V, 117.

49
. Ibid., V, 112.

50
. Ibid., V, 16.

51
. GE to John Blackwood, 11 September 1869, quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 420.

52
.
Letters
, V, 81.

53
. GE, Journal, 2 December 1870, MS Yale.

54
.
Letters
, V, 124.

55
. GE, Journal, 19 March 1871, MS Yale.

56
.
Letters
, V, 145–6.

57
. Ibid., V, 148; letter from John Blackwood to George Simpson, 4 June 1871, quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 434.

58
.
Letters
, V, 182.

59
. Ibid., VIII, 466.

60
. Ibid., IV, 392.

61
. Ibid., V, 167.

62
. Ibid., V, 337–8.

63
. Ibid., V, 184.

64
. Ibid., V, 197.

65
. Ibid., V, 237.

66
. Ibid., V, 246.

67
. GHL, Diary, 17 February–3 March 1870,
Letters
, V, 79n.

68
.
Letters
, V, 83.

69
. Ibid., V, 84.

70
. Ibid., V, 157.

71
. GE, Journal, 31 December 1870, MS Yale;
Letters
, VIII, 482.

72
. Quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, pp. 426–8.

73
.
Letters
, V, 7.

74
. Ibid., V, 127.

75
.
Middlemarch
, Bk.1, ch.10.

76
. Ibid., p. 95, Bk.1, ch.11.

77
. Henry James,
Galaxy
, March 1873, Carroll,
Critical Heritage
, p. 359.

78
.
Letters
, V, 167.

79
. Cross,
Life
(1886), I, 412.

80
.
Middlemarch
, p. 149, Bk.2, ch.15.

81
. Ibid., p. 264, Bk.3, ch.27.

82
. Ibid., p. 587, Bk.6, ch.58.

83
. Ibid., p. 278, Bk.3, ch.29.

84
.
Letters
, VIII, 463.

85
.
Middlemarch
, p. 838, Finale.

86
. Ibid., p. 835, Finale.

87
.
Daily Telegraph
, 18 June 1872, quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 444.

88
. Simcox,
Academy
(1 January 1873), McKenzie, p. 84.

89
.
Letters
, V, 374.

90
. Quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 445;
Letters
, IX, 33.

91
. Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 443.

92
.
Letters
, V, 322.

93
. Ibid., V, 125.

94
. F. W. H. Myers, ‘George
Eliot’,
Century Magazine
23 (November 1881), p. 60.

C
HAPTER
14 ‘Full of the World’

1
. GHL, Diary, 20 March 1878.
Letters
, VII, 16.

2
.
Letters
, VI, 413n.

3
. Ibid., VI, 436.

4
. Ibid., VI, 154–5.

5
. Ibid., VI, 257–8.

6
. Ibid., VI, 129n.

7
. See illustration no. 32.

8
.
Letters
, VI, 374.

9
. Ibid., VI, 45–6.

10
. Ibid., VI, 321.

11
. Ibid., V, 418.

12
. Ibid., VI, 192 and n.

13
. Ibid., IX, 134.

14
. Fanny Houghton to Isaac Evans, 28 January 1881, quoted Ashton,
George Eliot: A Life
, p. 339.

15
.
Letters
, V, 403.

16
. Ibid., VI, 372.

17
. ‘Brother and Sister’ sonnets,
Collected Poems
, p. 87.

18
.
Letters
, VI, 398.

19
. See, for instance, the sketch by Princess Louise in which GE is wearing a mantilla, illustration no. 32.

20
. Quoted Laski,
George Eliot
, p. 97.

21
.
Letters
, V, 469.

22
. Ibid., VIII, 245.

23
. See illustration no. 20.

24
.
Letters
, V, 437.

25
. Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 461.

26
.
Letters
, V, 400n.

27
. Ibid., VI, 47.

28
. Ibid., VI, 161.

29
. Ibid., VI, 304.

30
. Ibid., VI, 165, 174.

31
. Ibid., V, 442, 462.

32
. For Edith Simcox’s life, see K. A. McKenzie,
Edith Simcox and George Eliot
(London, 1961).

33
. Simcox,
Autobiography
, 24 April 1881, quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 495.

34
. Ibid., 5 June 1880, quoted Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 495.

35
. Ibid., 26 December 1879,
Letters
, IX, 283.

36
. Ibid., 9 March 1880, McKenzie, p. 97.

37
. Ibid., 18 January 1881, McKenzie, p. 102.

38
. GHL, Diary, 14 December 1875,
Letters
, VI, 197–8n.

39
.
Letters
, VI, 342.

40
. Ibid., VI, 277, 168.

41
. GHL, Diary, 23 February 1877,
Letters
, VI, 345n.

42
.
Letters
, V, 461.

43
. GHL, Diary, 5 September 1873,
Letters, V
, 433.

44
.
Letters
, VI, 171n, Haight,
George Eliot
, p. 480.

45
. GE, Journal, 11 December 1876, MS Yale.

46
.
Letters
, VI, 386.

47
. Ibid.

48
. Ibid., V, 314.

49
. Ibid., V, 427n.

50
. Ibid., V, 160–1.

51
. Ibid., V, 461.

52
. GE, Journal, 25 December 1875, MS Yale.

53
.
Letters
, VI, 76.

54
. Ibid., V, 451.

55
. Ibid., VI, 136.

56
. Ibid., VI, 433–4.

57
. Ibid., VI, 37.

58
. Ibid., V, 369.

59
. Ibid., V, 410–11.

60
. Ibid., VI, 137.

61
. Ibid., VI, 144–5.