In December 1870 she began writing Miss Brooke, a narrative which became part of Middlemarch as the history of its heroine. Not long after this she thought of combining this story of a daughter...
Textual Features
George Eliot
While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The...
Booth, Alison. Greatness Engendered. Cornell University Press.
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Blake, Kathleen. “George Eliot: The Critical Heritage”. The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot, edited by George Levine and George Levine, Cambridge University Press, pp. 202-25.
She says she has been and still is liable to feelings of embarrassment about her work...
Anthologization
Julia Kristeva
First translated into English in Signs in autumn 1981, it was assigned to the final position (in Alice Jardine
's and Harry Blake
's version) in The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics...
Literary responses
Sylvia Townsend Warner
With five volumes of Warner's letters in print, Gillian Beer
called her one of the most wonderful letter-writers of the twentieth century in English.
Several critics have observed the influence of Joseph Conrad
in The Voyage Out: in Heart of Darkness (published in 1899) the voyage into the unknown represents a dark and unspeakable self-discovery. The structure of...