of those particular phases of early nineteenth century life which she most powerfully depicts.
It remains true to-day, as The Times said in 1880, when George Eliot's name was added to our national necrology, that
In the whole range of English literature, there are not more than three or four names which deserve to be placed before hers. In the annals of the world probably no woman equalled her, certainly none surpassed her, in that greatness which defies definition and which we call genius.
November, 1919.
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