GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 18 January [1854]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 18 January [1854]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 18 January [1854]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1854-01-18
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 18 January [1854]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1854. Hitherto unpublished.
Cambridge Street | January 18.
Thank you, dear Sara, for your note. It made me sit down more cheerily to my work this morning. I felt some reluctance to ask [you] to read Feuerbach 429 because I feared he might repel you, but now, I may tell you, that I shall feel it a real comfort to have your prospective sympathy while I am writing, so be assured you will have the whole cargo of MS. It will be a great one before you get to the end. There are 100 mortal pages of appendix, of closer print than the rest! Your impression of the book exactly corresponds to its effect in Germany. It is considered the book of the age there, 430 but Germany and England are two countries. People here are as slow to be set on fire as a stomach. Then there are the reviewers, who set up a mound of stupidity and unconscientiousness between every really new book and the public. Still I think the really wise and only dignified course for Mr. Chapman would be to publish it in his Series as he has announced it.
Thine ever
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1854. Hitherto unpublished.
Cambridge Street | January 18.
Thank you, dear Sara, for your note. It made me sit down more cheerily to my work this morning. I felt some reluctance to ask [you] to read Feuerbach 429 because I feared he might repel you, but now, I may tell you, that I shall feel it a real comfort to have your prospective sympathy while I am writing, so be assured you will have the whole cargo of MS. It will be a great one before you get to the end. There are 100 mortal pages of appendix, of closer print than the rest! Your impression of the book exactly corresponds to its effect in Germany. It is considered the book of the age there, 430 but Germany and England are two countries. People here are as slow to be set on fire as a stomach. Then there are the reviewers, who set up a mound of stupidity and unconscientiousness between every really new book and the public. Still I think the really wise and only dignified course for Mr. Chapman would be to publish it in his Series as he has announced it.
Thine ever
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 18 January [1854], 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/94001