Writing to Blackwood in November 1856 to introduce Scenes of Clerical Life, G.H. Lewes promised, tales and sketches illustrative of the actual life of our country clergy about a quarter of a century ago; but solely in its 'human' and 'not at all' in…
The view that Eliot presented her female characters with only very limited possibilities for self-realization in either marriage or martyrdom, and that Eliot herself “lived" but did not "write" the "revolution" is one that has dominated the feminist…
