The Legend of]ubal (1878) Poems cont.

On 1 January 1869 Eliot wrote in her diary, 'I have set myself many tasks for the year - I wonder how many will be accomplished? A Novel called Middlemarch, a long poem on Timoleon, and several minor poems' (Journals, p. 134). She completed :Agatha' in early January, and 'How Lisa Loved the King' was 'prepared and sent off . . . to Edinburgh' on February 15 (Journals, pp. 134, 135). In her Diary 1861-77, Eliot listed 'Brother and Sister' among her other works, adding that she 'fmished [it on] August 1, 1869' (Journals, p. 96).