The Humour of Middlemarch
Title
The Humour of Middlemarch
Description
- In one of the many at once fascinating and irritating sarcasms which it was impossible not to look forward to and backward at, while <em>Middlemarch </em>was still incomplete, and life had still a literary object, George Eliot says, -- "Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe..."
Creator
Unknown
Source
[Unknown]. "The Humour of Middlemarch." Spectator, 14 December 1872, pp. 1582-1583
Publisher
George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org
Date
1872-12-14
Citation
Unknown, The Humour of Middlemarch, 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/52625