GE to Clementia [Mrs. Peter Alfred] Taylor, Broadstairs, 19 August 1852
Title
GE to Clementia [Mrs. Peter Alfred] Taylor, Broadstairs, 19 August 1852
Title
GE to Clementia [Mrs. Peter Alfred] Taylor, Broadstairs, 19 August 1852
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Clementia [Mrs. Peter Alfred] Taylor
Date(s)
- 1852-08-19
Place
Broadstairs
Letter Content
GE to Clementia [Mrs. Peter Alfred] Taylor, Broadstairs, 19 August 1852
Text: Cross, I, 287-288.
For the last two months I have been at this pretty, quiet place, which [David Copperfield] has made classic 168 -- far away from London noise and smoke.
I am sorry now that I brought with me Fox's Lectures, 169 which I had not managed to read before I left town. But I shall return thither at the end of next week, and I will at once forward the volume to Cary Lane. 170
One sees no novels less than a year old at the sea-side, so I am unacquainted with the [Blithedale Romance,] except through the reviews, which have whetted my curiosity more than usual. Hawthorne is a grand favourite of mine, and I shall be sorry if he do not go on surpassing himself. It is sad to hear of your only going out to consult a physician. Illness seems to me the one woe for which there is no comfort -- no compensation. But perhaps you find it otherwise, for you have a less rebellious spirit than I, and suffering seems to make you look all the more gentle.
Text: Cross, I, 287-288.
For the last two months I have been at this pretty, quiet place, which [David Copperfield] has made classic 168 -- far away from London noise and smoke.
I am sorry now that I brought with me Fox's Lectures, 169 which I had not managed to read before I left town. But I shall return thither at the end of next week, and I will at once forward the volume to Cary Lane. 170
One sees no novels less than a year old at the sea-side, so I am unacquainted with the [Blithedale Romance,] except through the reviews, which have whetted my curiosity more than usual. Hawthorne is a grand favourite of mine, and I shall be sorry if he do not go on surpassing himself. It is sad to hear of your only going out to consult a physician. Illness seems to me the one woe for which there is no comfort -- no compensation. But perhaps you find it otherwise, for you have a less rebellious spirit than I, and suffering seems to make you look all the more gentle.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Clementia [Mrs. Peter Alfred] Taylor, Broadstairs, 19 August 1852, 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/93569