Romola
Title
Romola
Text Read
Romola
Author
Eliot, George
Original Source
London: Blackwood & Sons, 1878 [originally published 1863]
Digitized by
MS not available
Publication Date
1878
Date(s) of Reading
- 1862-01-31
- 1862-12-17
Evidence
1862-01-26: "Jan. 31. The last day of this month! This evening I have been reading to G. some entries in my note-book of past times in which I recorded my malaise and despair. But it is impossible to me to believe that I have ever been in so unpromising and despairing a state as I now feel. - After writing these words, I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them." Diary 1861-1877 108
1862-12-17: "17. At p. 22 only. I am extremely spiritless - dead, and hopeless about my writing. The long state of headache and disordered liver has left me in depression and incapacity. The constantly heavy, clouded and often wet weather, tends to increase the depression. I am inwardly irritable and unvisited by good thoughts. Reading the Purgatorio again, and the Compendium Revelation um of Savonarola ... After this record, I read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it." Diary 1861-1877 114
1862-12-17: "17. At p. 22 only. I am extremely spiritless - dead, and hopeless about my writing. The long state of headache and disordered liver has left me in depression and incapacity. The constantly heavy, clouded and often wet weather, tends to increase the depression. I am inwardly irritable and unvisited by good thoughts. Reading the Purgatorio again, and the Compendium Revelation um of Savonarola ... After this record, I read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it." Diary 1861-1877 114
Related Works
Citation
Eliot, George, Romola, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57088