The Life of Sir Richard Hill, Bart.

The Life of Sir Richard Hill, Bart.

Sidney, Edwin

London: Seeley & Burnside, 1839

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1839

George Eliot to Martha Jackson, February 1840. "As you are so spirited in determining to see every book that is mentioned to you, I will tell you the modern ones I have read since I last wrote. Three volumes of G. P. R. James's Life and Times of Louis Quatorze; there is a fourth and last, which I shall, I hope, soon have. His reign, you know, was a focus on which were blended the brightest rays of France's military and literary glory. I devour it as a romance. I have now the life of Sir Richard Hill, by the Rev. Edwin Sidney, and Scrope on Deer Stalking in the Highlands, which last, you may fancy, can be a book only for sportsmen and Amazons, but I rather think it is interesting. I intend, if spared, to be busy with a chart which I am anxious to complete, and if I succeed, to print it for a certain object. It gives a chronological view of Ecclesiastical History, and has not that I know of been forestalled. I have seen charts of profane history innumerable, or rather I should say secular history, but never one of Church history. Have you?" GEL 1: 38

Sidney, Edwin, The Life of Sir Richard Hill, Bart, 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/57738

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