Review of Middlemarch, within Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 112, issue 686

Review of Middlemarch, within Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 112, issue 686

Collins, William Lucas

London: Blackwood Pillans & Wilson, 1872. Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 112, issue 686, 1872-12, pp. 727-45

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George Eliot to John Blackwood, 1 December 1872. “Before your letter came, Mr. Lewes had been expressing to me his satisfaction (and he is very hard to satisfy with articles on me) in the genuineness of judgment, wise moderation, and excellent selection of points, in Maga's review of Middlemarch. I have just now been reading the review myself (Mr. Lewes had meant at first to follow his rule of not allowing me to see what is written about myself) and am pleased to find the right moral note struck everywhere both in remark and quotation. Especially, I am pleased with the writer's sensibility to the pathos in Mr. Casaubon's character and position, and with the discernment he shows about Bulstrode. But it is a perilous matter to approve the praise which is given to our own doings.” GEL 5: 334

Collins, William Lucas, Review of Middlemarch, within Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 112, issue 686, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57442

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