The History of Sir Charles Grandison: in a series of letters

The History of Sir Charles Grandison: in a series of letters

Richardson, Samuel

London: Payne, 1810

HathiTrust

1810

George Eliot to Sara Sophia Hennell, 13 October [1847]. Thank you for putting me on reading Sir Charles Grandison. I have read five volumes and am only vexed that I have not the two last on my table at this moment that I might have them for my convives. I had no idea that Richardson was worth so much. I have had more pleasure from him than from all the Swedish novels together. The morality is perfect -- there is nothing for the new lights to correct." GEL 1: 240 "Their reading at Witley included a few old favourites--The Heart of Midlothian, The Legend of Montrose, Sir Charles Grandison, and Les Trois Mousquetaires. Lewes's Diary also mentions a number of recent novels--Trollope's The American Senator, Reade's A Woman Hater, Turgenev's Les Terres vierges, Zola's L'Assommoir, and The Pilot and His Wife by the Norwegian novelist Jonas Lie--Cobbett's works, Tennyson's dramas and The Idylls of the King, Daudet, Sainte-Beuve, and Mme D'Agoult's Memoires (probably suggested by the Wagners' visit). There is one bare reference to Edith Simcox's Natural Law. She was not invited to the Heights; no letter acknowledged the dedication." Gordon S. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press 1968. p. 505.

Richardson, Samuel, The History of Sir Charles Grandison: in a series of letters, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57709

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