If deciding whether Eliot was novelist or poet is less difficult than a similar decision with regard to Hardy, the common reader (and more particularly the paperback pur-chaser) has been at a considerable disadvantage in assessing how to appraise…
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…
On the face of it this is a much needed book, and certainly it makes a considerable contribution in a portable way to our ease of reference when we want to look up something in George Eliot's life or writing. But I am doubtful about the method used…
