... carry loads that three average men could barely handle. When impostors claimed authorship of Adam Bede, it was revealed that Marian Evans, the Westminster reviewer, was George Eliot. The book was a brilliant success. Her other major works include THE MILL ON THE FLOSS (1860), a story of destructive family relations, and SILAS MARNER (1861). Silas Marner, a linen-weaver, has accumulated a ... Immortality, and Duty", she pronounced "with terrible earnestness how inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third." Middlemarch is a nov...

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... a model, something that she can imitate and capture on paper or with clay: "Gudrun watched them closely, with objective curiosity. She saw each one as a complete figure, like a character in a book, or a subject in a picture, or a marionette in a theater, a finished creation". This last statement reflects Gudrun's point of view. It clearly portrays her broad sense of knowledge. Gudrun is able to ... even says as much, and he is a particularly obtrusive narrator: for example, there are constant, erudite discussions comparing Victorian society to our own (or rather, to the time at which Fo...

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... issues in nineteenth century British literature. Elizabeth Gaskell, a prominent novelist from that era wrote about these conditions and was a master at drawing the reader's attention to the social injustices of her time. The increased level of literacy in Victorian England contributed to a mass-market for book publishing and its mass audience was mainly made up of middle-class readers (O'Gorman 1). Their attitude towards ... onto individuals in order to draw attention to them. "Social explorers" were generally employed to discover and explore the social conditions within their own country...

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