Evidence: | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begin to think George Eliot is not only the greatest English woman novelist but perhaps the greatest English novelist. She has not the fiery poetry of Emily Bronte nor the exquisite surface of Jane Austen but she has a richness and sweep and depth that is Shakespearean. The one thing that maims or constrains her a little is some rigid moral sense which goes against her [italics] natural [end italics ] morality. She is haunted by an impossible ideal of purity and strictness. In [italics] Middlemarch [end italics] and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] she incarnates this in two women; one so impossibly good that she is repellent.
I am in for a George Eliot bout as a drunkard goes on a jag. Over dinner I raced through a short life of her.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 15 Jun 1938 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening: over dinner | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Antonia White |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 31 Mar 1899 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | [lapsed] Catholic |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | christene Eirene Botting |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [a life of George Eliot] |
Genre: | Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19750 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Antonia White | |
Editor: | Susan Chitty | |
Title: | Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 134 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 134, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19750, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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