Article on "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists."
Spinoza about to be published by Mr. Charles Bray, and George Eliot writes: "I particularly wish not to be known as the translator of the 'Ethics.'"
1857 To Plymouth, Penzance, Scilly Isles and Jersey, where the Epilogue to "Mr. Gilfils Love Story" was finished, and "Janet's Repentance" was begun.
Oct. 22, "Adam Bede" begun.
1858 The Blackwood stories republished in two volumes as "Scenes of Clerical Life," and reviewed in The Times January 2.
Dickens wrote: "If they originated with no woman, I believe that no man ever before had the art of making himself mentally so like a woman since the world began."
Thackeray said: "They were not written by a woman."
To Munich to see the picture galleries, etc., and to finish "Adam Bede."
To Ischl, Vienna, Prague and Dresden.
Blackwood offers £800 for 4 years' lease of the copyright of "Adam Bede," of which the last word was written November 16.
Tauchnitz reprints "Scenes of Clerical Life."
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