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CHAPTER XII - HER POEMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2011

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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 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1883

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  • HER POEMS
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  • HER POEMS
  • Mathilde Blind
  • Book: George Eliot
  • Online publication: 07 September 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511736322.013
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