Category: Biographies
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_Jan. 23._--Since I wrote last I have finished a little poem on old Agatha. But the last week or two I have been so disturbed in health that no work prospers. I have made a litt...
10. CHAPTER XIX.For many weeks after Mr. Lewes's death, George Eliot saw no one except Mr. Charles Lewes, and the very few persons she was obliged to receive on necessary business. She read no...
8. CHAPTER XVII._Jan. 1._--At the beginning of December the eighth and last book of "Middlemarch" was published, the three final numbers having been published monthly. No former book of mine ha...
9. CHAPTER XVIII.We have just come in from Weybridge, but are going to take refuge there again on Monday for a few days more of fresh air and long, breezy afternoon walks. Many thanks for your t...
6. CHAPTER XV.There is a good genius presiding over your gifts--they are so felicitous. You always give me something of which I have felt the want beforehand, and can use continually. It is e...
5. CHAPTER XIV.We prolonged our stay in Paris in order to see Madame Mohl, who was very good to us; invited the Scherers and other interesting people to meet us at dinner on the 29th, and temp...
13. i. 22;Evans, Isaac (brother), recollections of his sister, i. 11; her susceptibility to terror, 12; their happy childhood, 12; his marriage, 61; renewed correspondence with his sister...
11. iii. 207;Berlin recollections: meets Varnhagen, i. 251, 252; impressions of the city, 251; new acquaintances, 253; portrait of Kleist, 253; Fräulein Solmar's _salon_, 253; General Pfuhl,...
16. ii. 101;Blackwood's proposals for, 110; discussions as to title, 111; Blackwood's suggestion adopted, 112; Harpers, New York, give £300 for American edition, 115; third volume finished,...
14. ii. 315;Harrison, Frederic, letter to, on industrial co-operation, ii. 303; his legal advice in "Felix Holt," 303; more consultations with, 305, 306; letter to, on æsthetic teaching, et...
18. iii. 245;Venice: the Grand Canal by moonlight, ii. 172; San Marco and Doge's Palace, 173; pictures in the palace, 173; interior of St. Mark's, 174; "Death of Peter the Martyr," 175; the...
17. iii. 126, 142;"Spanish Gypsy," reading for, ii. 280; first act finished, 283; taken up again, 317; reading for, 321; recommenced in new form, 321; reading for, iii. 15; Mr. Lewes's opinion of...
12. iii. 121;letter to, from Homburg, 122; on return home, 125; on journey abroad, and country-house at Bickley, 152; on the pleasures of the country, 154; on Christmas invitation, 158; on s...
15. iii. 83;Martineau, Harriet, "The Crofton Boys," i. 93; meeting with, 94, 193; invitation from, 197; article on "Niebuhr," 203; visit to, at Ambleside, 212; respect for her, ii. 103; her...
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4. CHAPTER XIX.3. CHAPTER XVIII.2. CHAPTER XIV.