Her mother sat

Title

Her mother sat

Quotation

Her mother sat, like a Niobe before her troubles, with her youngest little girl on her lap, softly beating the child's hand up and down in time to the music.

Text

Middlemarch

Source

(2: 16: 288)

Subject

Motherhood

Publisher

Published by the George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, 2025. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org

Rights

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Postcard Creator

Heelam, Monique

Image