GE to Martha Jackson, [Griff, September 1840?]
Title
GE to Martha Jackson, [Griff, September 1840?]
Title
GE to Martha Jackson, [Griff, September 1840?]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Martha Jackson
Date(s)
- 1840-09
Place
[GRIFF]
Letter Content
GE to Martha Jackson, [Griff, September 1840?]
Text: Poet-Lore, 9 (February 1894), 60.
I am not one to forget that two of my friends pleased themselves in talking of me together, and I venture to say that if I had a person near me that knew and loved them as well as I, their ears (if our childish superstition be not defunct as all pretty superstitions are fast becoming) would be ever and anon crimson. I will not pretend to sit in so exalted a region of philosophy, or Christian unearthliness as to wish that you should value me according to my bare worth; it would deprive you as well as me of pleasure to tear off me the interesting masquerade dress that your imagination bedecks my commonplace self in; and I do not know that we should be the wiser or better if I were to denude myself of the pearls and brilliants and purple you have given me.
Text: Poet-Lore, 9 (February 1894), 60.
I am not one to forget that two of my friends pleased themselves in talking of me together, and I venture to say that if I had a person near me that knew and loved them as well as I, their ears (if our childish superstition be not defunct as all pretty superstitions are fast becoming) would be ever and anon crimson. I will not pretend to sit in so exalted a region of philosophy, or Christian unearthliness as to wish that you should value me according to my bare worth; it would deprive you as well as me of pleasure to tear off me the interesting masquerade dress that your imagination bedecks my commonplace self in; and I do not know that we should be the wiser or better if I were to denude myself of the pearls and brilliants and purple you have given me.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Martha Jackson, [Griff, September 1840?], 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/92920