George Eliot's Novels, within Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 14

George Eliot's Novels, within Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 14

Morley, John

London: Macmillan & Co., 1866. Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 14, 1866-08. pp. 272-79

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George Eliot to John Blackwood, 11 September 1866. “I am glad to know that Dean Ramsay is a friend of yours. His sympathy was worth having, and I at once wrote to thank him. Another wonderfully lively old man -- Sir Henry Holland -- came to see me about two Sundays ago, to bid me goodbye before going on an excursion to -- North America! -- and to tell me that he had just been re-reading Adam Bede for the fourth time. "I often read in it, you know, besides. But this is the fourth time quite through." I, of course, with the mother's egoism on behalf of the youngest born, was jealous for Felix. Is there any possibility of satisfying an author? But one or two things that George read out to me from an article in Macmillan's Magazine by Mr. Morley, did satisfy me. And yet I sicken again with despondency under the sense that the most carefully written books lie, both outside and inside people's minds, deep undermost in a heap of trash. I suppose the reason my 6/ editions are never on the railway stalls is partly of the same kind that hinders the free distribution of Felix. They are not so attractive to the majority as "The Trail of the Serpent"; still a minority might sometimes buy them if they were there. My mind is not much molested by these things, but writing to you, I am betrayed into this gossip about my authorship's affairs.” GEL 4: 309-10

Morley, John, George Eliot's Novels, within Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 14, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57516

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