ABSTRACT

This collection, first published in 1963, includes 29 of George Eliot’s essays written between 1846 and 1868. Through these essays, Pinney has managed to convey her range of subject-matters and variety of style. This title, with an introduction and footnotes written by the editor, will be of particular interest to students of literature.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|14 pages

Poetry and Prose, from the Notebook of an Eccentric

Coventry Herald and Observer, 4 December 1846, p. 2b; 15 January 1847, p. 2b; 5 February 1847, p. 2bc; 12 February 1847, p. 2ab; 19 February 1847, p. 2ab

chapter 2|19 pages

[The Progress of the Intellect]

Westminster Review, LIV (January, 1851), 353–368

chapter 3|6 pages

[The Life of Sterling]

Westminster Review, LVII (January, 1852), 247–251

chapter 4|30 pages

Woman in France: Madame De Sablé

Westminster Review, LXII (October, 1854), 448–473

chapter 5|14 pages

Three Months in Weimar

Fraser's Magazine, LI (June, 1855), 699–706

chapter 6|27 pages

Liszt, Wagner, and Weimar

Fraser's Magazine, LII (July, 1855), 48–62

chapter 7|14 pages

[Westward Ho! and Constance Herbert]

Westminster Review, LXIV (July, 1855), 288–296

chapter 8|6 pages

Lord Brougham's Literature

Leader, VI (7 July 1855), 652-653

chapter 9|5 pages

The Morality of Wilhelm Meister

Leader, VI (21 July 1855), 703

chapter 10|6 pages

The Future of German Philosophy

Leader, VI (28 July 1855), 723-724

chapter 11|4 pages

Life and Opinions of Milton

Leader, VI (4 August 1855), 750

chapter 12|32 pages

Evangelical Teaching : Dr. Cumming

Westminster Review, LXIV (October, 1855), 436-462

chapter 13|9 pages

[Tennyson's 'Maud']

Westminster Review, LXIV (October, 1855), 596-601

chapter 14|8 pages

Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft

Leader , VI (13 October 1855), 988-989

chapter 15|5 pages

Translations and Translators

Leader, VI (20 October 1855), 1014-1015

chapter 16|4 pages

Thomas Carlyle

Leader, VI (27 October 1855), 1034-1035

chapter 17|39 pages

German Wit: Heinrich Heine

Westminster Review, LXV (January, 1856), 1-33

chapter 18|6 pages

Introduction to Genesis

Leader, VII (12 January 1856), 41-42

chapter 19|5 pages

The Antigone and its Moral

Leader, VII (29 March 1856), 306

chapter 20|34 pages

The Natural History of German Life

Westminster Review, LXVI (July, 1856), 51-79

chapter 21|25 pages

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

Westminster Review, LXVI (October, 1856), 442-461

chapter 22|10 pages

[Three Novels]

Westminster Review, LXVI (October, 1856), 571-578

chapter 23|51 pages

Worldliness and OtherWorldliness: The Poet Young

Westminster Review, LXVII (January, 1857), 1-42

chapter 24|5 pages

A Word for the Germans

Pall Mall Gazette, I (7 March 1865), 201

chapter 25|6 pages

Servants' Logic

Pall Mall Gazette, I (17 March 1865), 310-311

chapter 26|18 pages

The Influence of Rationalism

Fortnightly Review, I (15 May 1865), 43-55

chapter 27|16 pages

Address to Working Men, By Felix Holt

Blackwood's, CIII (January, 1868), 1-11

chapter 28|6 pages

Notes on form in Art (1868)

chapter 29|15 pages

Leaves from a Note-Book