Giannetto, within Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 117, issue 711

Giannetto, within Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 117, issue 711

Majendie, Lady Margaret Elizabeth

London: Blackwood Pillans & Wilson, 1875. Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 117, issue 711, 1875-01, pp. 1-31. Vol. 117, issue 712, 1875-02, pp. 145-71

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1875

George Eliot to John Blackwood, 7 February 1875. “The first part of "Gianetto" raised my Minterest, but I was disappointed in the unravelling of the plot. It seems to me neither really nor ideally satisfactory. But it is a long while since I read a story newer than Rasselas, which I re-read two years ago with a desire to renew my childish delight in it, when it was one of my best-loved companions. So I was a bad judge of comparative merits among popular writers. I am obliged to fast from fiction, and fasting is known sometimes to weaken the stomach. I ought to except Miss Thackeray's stories, which I cannot resist when they come near me -- and bits of Mr. Trollope, for affection's sake. You would not wonder at my fasting if you knew how deplorably uncalled for and "everything-that-it-should-not-be" my own fiction seems to me in times of inward and outward fog -- like this morning when the light is dim on my paper.” GEL 6: 123-4

Majendie, Lady Margaret Elizabeth, Giannetto, within Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 117, issue 711, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57542

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