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George Eliot – Humanist, Sociologist and Knower of the Inner Life
Author: Julian PoweMarch 28, 2026
Eppie’s hand rests on the shoulder of her adoptive father, Silas Marner, as she looks her natural father, Godfrey, in the eye. Godfrey had deserted Eppie’s mother, who had then died shortly after giving birth to their daughter. He is now offering Eppie a life of comfort and thus redemption for himself. After finding and [...]
Romanticism or Realism?
Author: Julian ScottDecember 30, 2025
This question occurred to me as I was coming to the end of the 19th century novel Middlemarch by George Eliot (the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans). As the characters’ lives and actions came to fruition I found myself thinking: would this person’s life really have ended like this (so happily), or would they have [...]