Letters to George Eliot, 1865-1878 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Letters to Eliot mention or discuss her writing, her husband, George Lewes; Wordsworth; Herbert Spencer; Carlyle; William Rossetti; Milton; Durer; Giacomo Leopardi; poetics; travel plans of correspondents; Shakespeare; Alexander Macmillan; the drowning of the Furney sisters; the Cambridge boat races; Cambridge University scholarships; Trollope's "Rachel Ray"; and Thomson's "City of Dreadful Night." Philosophical, literary and religious observations are interspersed