"George Eliot." [Book Chapter]
Title
"George Eliot." [Book Chapter]
Description
- “In this essay it is not intended to go into the vexed question of George Eliot's private life and character. Death has resolved her individuality into nothingness, and the discrepancy between her lofty thoughts and doubtful action no longer troubles us. But her work still remains as common property for all men to appraise at its true value-to admire for its beauty, to reverence for its teaching, to honour for its grandeur, yet, at the same time to determine its weaknesses and to confess where it falls short of the absolute perfection claimed for it in her lifetime.”
Creator
Linton, Eliza Lynn
Source
Linton, Eliza Lynn. "George Eliot." Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations, London, Hurst & Blackett, limited, 1897, pp. 61-115.
Publisher
George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org
Date
1897
Citation
Linton, Eliza Lynn, "George Eliot." [Book Chapter], Contemporaries on George Eliot's Works, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/52340