The Inner Life of George Eliot
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780548030257
Subjects: Literary; Women; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: "A HUMAN life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labours men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge: a spot where the definiteness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly acquaintance with all neighbours even to the dogs and donkeys, may spread not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habit of the blood."