Middlemarch Part II [Review]

Title

Middlemarch Part II [Review]

Description

  • The second book of <em>Middlemarch</em> is very tranquil reading; there is but one interest in it that ever threatens to excite the warmer sympathies, and that is, as yet, but gently strung. Poor Dorothea's woes as the wife of a man who has no place in his nature for the tenderer feelings, and who can neither give nor recieve the sort of confidence without which there is no love in such a heart as hers...

Creator

Hutton, R. H.

Source

Hutton, R. H., "Middlemarch Part II," Spectator, vol. 45, 3 February 1872, pp. 147-148.

Publisher

George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org

Date

1872-02-03

Citation

Hutton, R. H, Middlemarch Part II [Review], Contemporaries on George Eliot's Works, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/52593