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George Eliot's Life As Related in Her Letters and Journals.
George Eliot's Life As Related in Her Letters and Journals Author:George Eliot Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 160 Start for Italy. [WANDSWORTH, Letter to be in Eome by Palm Sunday, or else by the follow- John Black- wood, 22i1 ing Tuesday. Of course we shall write ... more »to you March 1860. when we know what will be our address in Eome. In the meantime news will gather. I don't mean to send ' The Mill on the Floss' to any one, except to Dickens, who has behaved with a delicate kindness in a recent matter, which I wish to acknowledge. I am grateful and yet rather sad to have finished —sad that I shall live with my people on the banks of the Floss no longer. But it is time that I should go and absorb some new life, and gather fresh ideas. SUMMARY. JANUARY 1859 TO MARCH 1860. Looking for cases of inundation in 'Annual Eegister'—New House—Holly Lodge, Wandsworth—Letter to John Black- wood—George Eliot fears she has not characteristics of " the popular author "—Subscription to 'Adam Bede' 730 copies —Appreciation by a cabinetmaker—Dr John Brown sends ' Rab and his Friends' with an inscription—Letter to Black- wood thereon—Tries to be hopeful—Letters to Miss Hennell —Description of Holly Lodge—Miss Nightingale—Thoughts1860.] Summary of Chapter IX. 161 on death—Scott—Mrs Clarke writes—Mr and Mrs Congreve —Letter to Mrs Bray on effects of anxiety — Mrs Clarke dying—Letter to John Blackwood—Wishes Carlyle to read ' Adam Bede'—' Life of Frederic' painful—Susceptibility to newspaper criticism — Edinburgh more encouraging than London — Letter to Blackwood to stop puffing notices— Letter from E. Hall, working man, asking for cheap editions —Sale of 'Adam Bede'—Death of Mrs Clarke—1800 copies of ' Adam Bede' sold—Letter to Blackwood—Awakening to fame—Letter to Froude—Mrs Poyser quoted in House of Commons by Mr Charles Buxton — Opinions of Charles Reade, Shirley Brooks, and John Murr...« less