A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot
Subtitle: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780815327820
Subjects: Women authors, English; Shirt industry; Diaries; Women social reformers; Women; Biography / Autobiography; English; England; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Eliot, George; Friends and associates; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; 19th century; Simcox, E. J; Women Authors; (Edith Jemima); Biography: general; Other prose: 19th century; Women's studies; 19th Century English Literature; Women As Authors (English Literature); Literary Criticism; Biography/Autobiography; Authors, English; Great Britain; History
First sentence: "Since nothing all my love avails; Since all my life seemed meant for fails; Since this was written and needs must be"-behooves one to realize and accept the fact, with everything involved in it.