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Even though they were poles apart in some respects, George Eliot and George Meredith profit by comparison in relation to their views on women. Between 1872 and 1885 there were four significant novels about women by these two most important novelists of the late Victorian period. George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1872) was followed by her last novel Daniel Deronda (1876). George Meredith’s The Egoist (1879) was written three years later and followed by Diana of the Crossways (1885). Certain attitudes towards women reflected in these four novels are very similar.
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George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, ed. Barbara Hardy (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967), 64: 833.
The George Eliot Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight, 9 vols (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954–78), v, 364.
Henry James, ‘Daniel Deronda: A Conversation’, in Partial Portraits (New York: Macmillan, 1919), pp. 89–90.
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Daniels, E.A. (1982). A Meredithian Glance at Gwendolen Harleth. In: Haight, G.S., Van Arsdel, R.T. (eds) George Eliot. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05969-0_3
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