Maria Stuart, a tragedy

Maria Stuart, a tragedy

Schiller, Friedrich

London: Auld, 1801

HathiTrust

1801

George Eliot to Maria Lewis, Griff, 1 October 1840. "I have made an alteration in my plans with Mr. Brezzi, and shall henceforward take Italian and German alternately so that I shall not be liable to the consciousness of having imperative employment for every interstice of time. There seems a greater affinity between German and my mind than Italian, though less new to me, possesses. I am reading Schiller's Maria Stuart and Tasso. I was pleased with a little poem I learnt a week or two ago in German, and as I want you to like it I have just put the idea it contains into English doggrel which quite fails to represent the beautiful simplicity and nature of the original, but yet I hope will give you sufficiently its sense to screen the odiousness of the translation." GEL 1: 69.

Schiller, Friedrich, Maria Stuart, a tragedy, 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/57411

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