Gordon S. Haight

Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith , Rhoda Broughton , and Henry James . She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house...

The critical tide did not turn (despite some acute criticism from Virginia Woolf , who called Middlemarchthe magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up...

She anticipated that this book would be less popular than its predecessor. In England, however, Harold Hannyngton Child , who had first reviewed her for the Times Literary Supplement almost forty years before this...

Many friends of GE including Edith J. Simcox , plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight , believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes for his tireless protection of GE

MBL began early to publish short stories. In her diary she wrote that the first to see print was in a journal called Merry England (edited by Alice and Wilfrid Meynell from May 1883 to...

George Eliot wrote to KSM on Christmas Day 1877 to thank her for sending a copy of her pretty tract about the Hospital.