Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II CHILDHOOD AND EARLY HOME
- CHAPTER III YOUTHFUL STUDIES AND FRIENDSHIPS
- CHAPTER IV TRANSLATION OF STRAUSS AND FEUERBACH — TOUR ON THE CONTINENT
- CHAPTER V THE “WESTMINSTER REVIEW”
- CHAPTER VI GEORGE HENRY LEWES
- CHAPTER VII SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE
- CHAPTER VIII ADAM BEDE
- CHAPTER IX THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
- CHAPTER X SILAS MARNER
- CHAPTER XI ROMOLA
- CHAPTER XII HER POEMS
- CHAPTER XIII FELIX HOLT AND MIDDLEMARCH
- CHAPTER XIV DANIEL DERONDA
- CHAPTER XV LAST YEARS
- THE PROPHECY OF SAINT ORAN: AND OTHER POEMS
CHAPTER XII - HER POEMS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II CHILDHOOD AND EARLY HOME
- CHAPTER III YOUTHFUL STUDIES AND FRIENDSHIPS
- CHAPTER IV TRANSLATION OF STRAUSS AND FEUERBACH — TOUR ON THE CONTINENT
- CHAPTER V THE “WESTMINSTER REVIEW”
- CHAPTER VI GEORGE HENRY LEWES
- CHAPTER VII SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE
- CHAPTER VIII ADAM BEDE
- CHAPTER IX THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
- CHAPTER X SILAS MARNER
- CHAPTER XI ROMOLA
- CHAPTER XII HER POEMS
- CHAPTER XIII FELIX HOLT AND MIDDLEMARCH
- CHAPTER XIV DANIEL DERONDA
- CHAPTER XV LAST YEARS
- THE PROPHECY OF SAINT ORAN: AND OTHER POEMS
Summary
Few are the external events to be now recorded of George Eliot's life. The publication of her successive works forms the chief landmarks. But the year 1865 is distinguished by circumstances of some importance. In this year Mr. Lewes, after assisting to found the Fortnightly Review, assumed its editorship; and among the contributions to the first numbcr of the new Review was a short article from the pen of George Eliot on Mr. Lecky's important work ‘The Influence of Rationalism.’
In the course of the same year Mr. and Mrs. Lewes moved from 16 Blandford Square to the Priory, a commodious house in North Bank, St. John's Wood, which has come to be intimately associated with the memory of George Eliot. Here, in the pleasant dwelling-rooms decorated by Owen Jones, might be met, at her Sunday afternoon receptions, some of the most eminent men in literature, art, and science. For the rest, her life flowed on its even tenor, its routine being rigidly regulated. The morning till lunch time was invariably devoted to writing: in the afternoon she either went out for a quiet drive of about two hours, or she took a walk with Lewes in Regent's Park. There the strange-looking couple—she with a certain weird, sibylline air, he not unlike some unkempt Polish refugee of vivacious manners—might be seen, swinging their arms, as they hurried along at a pace as rapid and eager as their talk.
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- George Eliot , pp. 161 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1883