Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-05-19
TlKENANS WANDERINGS
GEORGE elor's CHILDHOOD HONE

'D" c,,,d,ood Friends stii Living
,,.,y,lsh;. isc, by Edgar H. wakeman'l
a1n,,In. ENGLAND. April -. -Remein'
~. GEORGE Ellots work which, In ~
~, ~" noon the Intellect aud heart Of all
~ ,ist ,-,,king people, Il instiuctNcly |
hns''I ,,itb that Of scutt and Shake.
- and her grand, strong plain incc' |
- ,on instinctivcly group with those
N mt. i,ronte, SayonarDln aud Llszt,you |
- the pleasant region where Sue grew
80 fuli stature ofpcnon and geuluswi'h
.s,blu, akin TO the same Indchnnhle
-, al drcamful unrcality touched with
..,sor aud almost hushcd with awe ~
- YOU TRAD tho quaint streets Of old
.,,ri. close to tho shrine Of the i'm
,nsr,al bard Of Avon.
,,8.cd the Shakespeare country IL truly
go Ellot's land. Stratford, warwick
V..g,inrton. Coventry mud Nuncnton nli
IN nearly direct line from the south.
.,tothe northeast boundaries Of War
.,t.lirc. one Of the finest highways In
leland. elm shaded for more than half
...neth. connects them all. iIlots War
-lA.ilrc wa. the Arden of shakcsp earc.
n,,,me Avon smiled hnck from IT, muir
-udng waters upon them both. The same
rn,uy hllls. gentle slopes and sunny val
i,veaye both their inspiration and Image
=, Their hearts warmed 10 the same
,,,,utry. In the subtle delincation Of
't..e Eliot was TO the early Victorian age,
=, i,,s, Ia degree. what Shakespeare WIS
=. ,bs early Elizabcthnn. And Shake
,ss,r.. birthplace and grave NJ strHtiord
.r.pot thirty miles distant from George
Elots gitlhoJdhumc.
II M. on the oldcn highway between
ce,,ptry aud NuncatUn. These towns aro
tst nluc miles apart. Bedworih, n sleepy
al plt village, Is midway between; and
siout halfway FROM Bcdworth to Nuncn.
nd. near Arbury Hall, the seat II the
yevdIgatcs, "a Grill, u fine old English
i.nn home aud stcadlng belonging 20 the
er,at Arhury estates now ~ when George
EleIs MARY Ann Evans baby eyes first
l,olcd upon the great ilr, ccdnra, olms
.rl Hines which shade this old and nisple
zone structure. IN this house u many
gsilr. and tiny PANIED bow winduwa George
Fild lived from March, 1870, when sh1
wa lalc but four months old, until
March. 1874. when her family removed
from Grin to l'ol,shill, Coventry, period
al tvcntyone years. These were the
,w,uiv.onc years In which were nurturoi
and mamr,d all those bodily, heart and
mental forccs which gave her the highest
place tn literature Of any woman that ever
lived
Her father. Robert Evans, WINS tenant
fNr Francis Ncwdigutc, at Kirk llallam,
Drrlyshlr, On the death n old Sir Roger
Newtilga,c the Afhury estate In Warwick
shire cameto Francis NcwdIgatc for life,
and Rolcu Evans accompanied him 10
Arbury a. his tenant and agent, iiy u
frat wife there had been two children.
Their mother died 10 isQ, Their father
married Chniiani Pearson In isla Thrto
Children were born Of this union
Chrls,lana. In 1874, Isaac, In 1916. aud
Mary Ann George Eliot, In 1873, ~ the
south Farm Afbnry. which Ind been
given the father temporarily. Cruss. in
hI, biography u George Eliot, transcribcs
ifon an Old diary of the father where Il
bad been pennci In his own handwriting;
Nov q, islp-aiiry ANA Eyans was born ut
Afbgfy Farm this was south Farm" Ar.
bsfyJat 5o'clock tails morning.
Il was ST. Cccrlin's Day. II Il also Of
fccorl that the child was baptized In the
ancient church of Chilycrs Cotton. which
mars In cnimbling Norman tower over a
landscape that will strongly remind you n
the uoors about Hawurth, whrru the VS.
ten liruntd struggled nearly all their lives
30 pathetic silence This quaint old pile
midway betwccn the Grn farmhouse aud
Nuuealon aud the half dozen house, uu
der IT, caves Is the shcpporton OF "Amul
Barton
The three Evans children, then, most and
longest associated with Grin, worc The
three born upon the Arhury estate, Chris
tana married n surgeon named CLARK, oil
MrIldcn, Warwlekshirc, and died IN 1850
Georgc Eliot died In lssn Isaac. as lcurnct
after arrival herc, who had remained al
Grin rud succeeded the noyclist's fnthern'
Il, tenant and the Ncwdigatcs' agent, sud
denly died In his chair on returning iron
service ut Chilvefs Cotton church In Octu
Der. lsgl
llis children. ncphcws mud nieccs o
George Eliot, are four In number, Il Is "a
unpleasant but trdthful statement thn
while they command certain dcicruncl
on account " relationship, without
which their own small afIairs would ncye
have reached the confines ~ their littll
parish, they are unloyablc and unloyed b,
the few Of qualify aud the thousands u
lowly around them. They are stern, cold
mi'crly money gsabbcrs, all; Extensively
CONSCIOUS Of their radiHtcd Importance an,
snappisaly cburlish aud repgllcnt to al
who bring whole hearted reverence 10
$40, made luminous ~ the presence OF
mighty soul.
Que daughter, u maiden lady Of sever
nnd awful aspect, was lsnac'H housckucpc
TOT many years NJ GrlI. Shc now reside
NJ Bedworth, and the lowly Of the plnc
dread her augcrc visagc aud her cruc
Platitudcs, they freely confessed 10. ne
When hcrpursc, hand aud gentle Word
might relieve great suffering. \ brother
TIE ltoy. Frederic Evans, ~ the prcscu
rector u Bedworth lie performs hi
unonlcnl offices with mechanical nrcurac
aud metallic tOldeuncss. enjoys his IL
living rs though tie Almighty had ~
RAGGED the parishes aud population q
England with especial rcfcrunce TO ~
uarloua relations of the Evans family !
Ills MlAirs, amt has no heart eyes for ia
poverty Hnd suffering about him.
For bciworih " u pit village. with f.,
insignificant and struggling manufi'
t9fies Wages are Nc ns low "A point as Il
any place IN England There II not bal
s''ougb for half the year for half the iol
iodo These clutch at amy life sustainin
labor with positive fcroc.ty, and coul
take the Rev, Frederic Evans into not onl
aduzen but an 9unircl pltiful homes
ikdwortll whore attention, sympathy, COZ
ISOLATION nnl even now mud then fpW col
~ pnuoa would make the name aud Nh
religion Of iedworth rector stand I,
much that is secmly in any minister