GE Journal, Richmond, 2-3 February 1858
Title
GE Journal, Richmond, 2-3 February 1858
Title
GE Journal, Richmond, 2-3 February 1858
Sender
Ge Journal
Recipient
U
Date(s)
- 1858-02-02–<br /> 1858-02-03
Place
Richmond
Letter Content
GE Journal, Richmond, 2-3 February 1858
MS: Yale. Hitherto unpublished. and 3d.
Unable to work still, so that I have lost 3 days. Gave up Miss Martineau's History 1078 last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental rhetorical style in this history which is fatiguing and not instructive. But her history of the Reform Movement is very interesting. G. has finished the Excursion, which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last. He has now begun the other poems of Wordsworth. This morning I finished the Eumenides. 1079 Wrote to Barbara, 1080 79, East Fifteenth Street, New York. Bessie Parkes has written to me wishing me to contribute to the "Englishwoman's Journal," a new monthly which, she says, "We are beginning with a £1000 and great social interest."
MS: Yale. Hitherto unpublished. and 3d.
Unable to work still, so that I have lost 3 days. Gave up Miss Martineau's History 1078 last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental rhetorical style in this history which is fatiguing and not instructive. But her history of the Reform Movement is very interesting. G. has finished the Excursion, which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last. He has now begun the other poems of Wordsworth. This morning I finished the Eumenides. 1079 Wrote to Barbara, 1080 79, East Fifteenth Street, New York. Bessie Parkes has written to me wishing me to contribute to the "Englishwoman's Journal," a new monthly which, she says, "We are beginning with a £1000 and great social interest."
Citation
Ge Journal, GE Journal, Richmond, 2-3 February 1858, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/91941