Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from George Eliot's Two Marriages: An Essay
The reputation of George Eliot has become precious. The general suffrage gives her a foremost place among those writers of the second class who address a far wider audience than the austere few of the first class; and the kind of service she has rendered already secures for her the seat she coveted in
"The choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence."
For many of us the revelations of her inner life made in the Letters recently published have increased the sense of personal endearment, as if she were one of our great ascended friends. This feeling may operate as a bias to disqualify us for an impartial judgment of her merits as a woman. But the questions raised by her two marriages, and especially by the first, no longer concern her so much as they concern modern society and the moral health of the race.
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