The Humour of Middlemarch

Title

The Humour of Middlemarch

Description

In one of the many at once fascinating and irritating sarcasms which it was impossible not to look forward to and backward at, while Middlemarch was still incomplete, and life had still a literary object, George Eliot says, -- "Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe..."

Creator

Unknown

Source

"The Humour of Middlemarch." Spectator, 14 December 1872, pp. 1582-1583

Publisher

George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett.
https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org

Date

1872-12-14

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