Janet's Repentance

Janet's Repentance

Eliot, George

1857

1857-05-26: "26. Wrote to my Brother and Sister Fanny. Received a pleasant letter from Blackwood, enclosing one from Archer Gurney to the "author of Mr. Gilfil's Love Story". Read G. the three first chapters of Janet's Repentance. We are reading Draper's Physiology in the evenings." Diary 1854-1861 69 1857-09-03: "Sep. 3. Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago. G. at home again. Read to him Janet Part IV in the evening." Diary 1854-1861 70^^The attached text is the 1857 original publication of "Janet's Repentance" from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; the Archive does not have Eliot's manuscript, but does have this 1857 edition for persual.

Eliot, George, Janet's Repentance, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57326

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