Alison Booth
has traced GE
's influence on Virginia Woolf
, and several critics have anointed Margaret Drabble
as her major successor among contemporary British writers.
Booth, Alison. Greatness Engendered. Cornell University Press, 1992.
passim
Blake, Kathleen. “George Eliot: The Critical Heritage”. The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot, edited by George Levine and George Levine, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 202 - 25.
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