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...
Friends, Associates
George Eliot
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...
