By John Rignall

Superbly illustrated with 30 built-in black-and-white photographs, listed here are over 500 A-Z entries at the existence and paintings of George Eliot. Written by way of a world group of students, the better half deals a wealth of biographical and historic info that illuminates Eliot's paintings. There are entries on all her novels (including plot synopses), tales, and critical essays, plus insurance of poetry and translations, letters and journals, and notebooks and manuscripts. a protracted access surveys her existence, and shorter entries talk about her kin, associates, and friends, the areas she lived and the nations she visited, and the writers, thinkers, artists, and composers whose paintings she knew. the quantity additionally comprises large cross-referencing and recommendations for extra interpreting, a chronology, a bibliography, an alphabetical checklist of fictional characters, and maps of either fictional settings and the author's large travels. In sum, this can be the 1st reference paintings to do justice to the extreme variety and intensity of George Eliot's highbrow existence.

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At the very last moment Arthur gallops up with her reprieve. She is transported. Moved by Arthur's repentant anguish, Adam forgives him. Arthur goes abroad; Dinah stays at the Hall Farm while the Poyser family recovers from its shame. It gradually emerges that A d a m and Dinah are deeply drawn to each other. Eventually they marry and prosper. The chastened Arthur returns to his estate, but Hetty has died while still in exile. Critical Approaches Adam Bede was not neglected during the first wave of revived critical interest in George Eliot's works that began in the late 1940s (see REPUTATION, CRITICAL).

1 3 ) . Eliot sympathized with the North, rejoiced in their successes, but 'with that check which attends all joy in a war not absolutely ended' ( I iv. 1 3 9 ) . See also A M E R I C A . GRH ' A m o s B a r t o n ' . See SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE. A n g l i c a n i s m . George Eliot was born into a fam­ ily of loyal members of the Church o f England, the church established by law as the national religion of England, and was brought up to be a practising Anglican Christian. About half o f all churchgoers in England were revealed on Census Sunday 1 8 5 1 to be attending an Anglican place o f divine wor­ ship (the rest o f the practising Christians were at Dissenting churches—Methodist, Baptist, Con­ gregational, Quaker, Unitarian, and so on—or Roman Catholic churches).

4 0 3 - 4 ) . Blackwood did not write an introduction, and the 'Address' was pub­ lished in the January 1 8 6 8 edition of'Maga'. The message o f the 'Address' is not substantially different from the one Felix Holt gives in Duffield on Nomination Day ( F H 3 0 ) , except that, here, he keeps his temper. He assumes he is again address­ ing a 'mixed assembly o f workmen' and develops at greater length the idea that working-men's suf­ frage is an opportunity for furthering the c o m m o n good, not for insisting on change for change's sake.

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