The intensity of Edith Jemima Simcox's passion for George Eliot has been known to a twen-tieth-century reading public since the publication of K. A. McKenzie's Edith Simcox and George Eliot in 1961. McKenzie's book is a combination of summary and…
As members of the George Eliot Fellowship are well aware, George Eliot died on December 22nd. 1880, and was buried in the unconsecrated portion of Highgate Cemetery by the side of George Henry Lewes. On the lid of her coffin was the inscription from…
