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The Ethics of George Eliot's Works
It is a source of great gratification to the friends of the author that his little volume has already been so well received that the second edition has been out of print for some time. In now publishing a third, they have been influenced by two considerations,the continued demand for the book, and the favourable opinion expressed of it by George Eliot herself, which, since her lamented death, delicacy no longer forbids them to make public. In a letter to her friend and publisher, the late Mr John Blackwood, received soon after the appearance of the first edition, she writes, with reference to certain passages: They seemed to me more penetrating and finely felt than almost anything I have read in the way of printed comments on my own writings. Again, in a letter to a friend of the author, p. viiishe says: When I read the volume in the summer, I felt as if I had been deprived of something that should have fallen to my share in never having made his personal acquaintance. And it would have been a great benefit,a great stimulus to me to have known some years earlier that my work was being sanctioned by the sympathy of a mind endowed with so much insight and delicate sensibility. It is difficult for me to speak of what others may regard as an excessive estimate of my own work, but I will venture to mention the keen perception shown in the note on page 29, as something that gave me peculiar satisfaction. Once more. In an article in the Contemporary Review of last month, on The Moral Influence of George Eliot, by One who knew her, the writer says: It happens that the only criticism which we have heard mentioned as giving her pleasure, was a little posthumous volume published by Messrs Blackwood. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 17172
Author: Brown, John Crombie
Release Date: Nov 28, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English
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