... ridiculed her personally for her illegitimate marriage (George 6). "Lewes had to shelter her from adverse criticism of her work, censoring letters and reviews from periodicals. She was very sensitive to negative reaction to her work- (Harris 91). Women wanted nothing to do with her; only men came to ... which she displayed in Silas Marner and Romola. After she published these two books her fans became wild about her and she developed a wide circle of `friends (George 6). Things started to end for Mary in the mid 1870s. In 1874, she began working on her final novel, Daniel Deonda. In 187...

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