Review of The Religion of the Heart by Leigh Hunt, within the Coventry Herald [?] [x]

Review of The Religion of the Heart by Leigh Hunt, within the Coventry Herald [?] [x]

Hennell, Sara Sophia

London: the Coventry Herald, 1853. Nov. 1. p. 2a

Not Applicable

1853

George Eliot to Sara Sophia Hennell, 18 November 1853. "When I wrote the other day I had not read your nice little notice of Leigh Hunt's book. I think you have characterized it very justly -- at least all the praise you have given it is appropriate, but of course you have charitably suppressed a great deal of disprobation which is equally just. I can't help laughing at the imbecility of that pious dictum -- that if Shelley had lived till now he would have been a Christian -- that is, he would have been old woman enough for it by this time." GEL 2: 125-6 "Hennell, Sara S., rev of Leigh Hunt, The Religion of the Heart, Coventry Herald (Nov. 1) p.2a." Source: Avrom Fleischman. George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies, September 2008, No. 54/55 (September 2008), p. 16

Hennell, Sara Sophia, Review of The Religion of the Heart by Leigh Hunt, within the Coventry Herald [?] [x], 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/57829