Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Jameson, Anna

London: Saunders & Otley, 1838

Internet Archive

1838

George Eliot to Martha Jackson, 14 January 1840. "My mind today has been an excellent match to the atmosphere, very hazy and cheerless, and my pace in my studies about equal to that of my feet through the mud. Now for an inventory of the additional goods and chattels that have gained admission through the windows of my house to-day -- for you must know that the two portals in most frequent use in other dwellings have in mine well-nigh lost the power of completely opening for want of employment. Item: a fragment of Milton's Ode on the Nativity, learned while dressing. You of course know that beautiful Ode, if not get an introduction to it. Item: a work on Baptism, on which, as I think my classical friend is no controversialist, I will not dilate further than to observe that I studied it after the peripatetic system. Item: a book by Mrs. Jameson, entitled ‘Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada,’ a lively book, by a clever authoress, but I fear of no fixed religious principles, if I may judge from an apparent affectation of a liberalising, philosophising manner of speaking about religion and morals. Voilà tout! To save my character, if I have any worth preserving, I must assure you that all my days pass not so "fuliginously" as Dr. Young has taught me to say; as well as that my morning was nearly engrossed by filial and domestic duties, and a large portion of my afternoon by a visit received and one paid. I am rather aghast to find myself nearly in the third page of my letter without having written a word worth reading." GEL 1: 36

Jameson, Anna, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, 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/57451

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