GE to Edward Clodd, London, 4 January 1880
Title
GE to Edward Clodd, London, 4 January 1880
Title
GE to Edward Clodd, London, 4 January 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Edward Clodd
Date(s)
- 1880-01-04
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Edward Clodd, London, 4 January 1880
Text: Cross, New Edition, p. 604.
I am greatly obliged to you for sending me your book entitled [Jesus of Nazareth,] 358 which I have read with much interest both in its purpose and in its execution. I had hardly thought, before, that we had among us an author who could treat Biblical subjects for the young with an entire freedom from the coaxing, dandling style, and from the rhetoric of the showman who describes his monstrous outside pictures, not in the least resembling the creatures within.
My mind cannot see the Gospel histories in just the same proportions as those you have given. But on this widely conjectural subject there may and must be shades of difference which do not affect fundamental agreement.
Text: Cross, New Edition, p. 604.
I am greatly obliged to you for sending me your book entitled [Jesus of Nazareth,] 358 which I have read with much interest both in its purpose and in its execution. I had hardly thought, before, that we had among us an author who could treat Biblical subjects for the young with an entire freedom from the coaxing, dandling style, and from the rhetoric of the showman who describes his monstrous outside pictures, not in the least resembling the creatures within.
My mind cannot see the Gospel histories in just the same proportions as those you have given. But on this widely conjectural subject there may and must be shades of difference which do not affect fundamental agreement.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Edward Clodd, London, 4 January 1880, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/92279