In summer 1859 GE
met and became friendly with Richard Congreve
, a Comtean philosopher, and his wife Maria
(whose father, a doctor, had attended Eliot's father in his last illness). She became a close...
Literary responses
George Eliot
Armgart has received the most critical interest among GE
's shorter poems because of its dramatisation of the conflict between public artistry and womanly fulfilment. The best-known over time, however, must be the secular hymn...
