GHL to Alexander Main, London, [10 April 1873]
Title
GHL to Alexander Main, London, [10 April 1873]
Title
GHL to Alexander Main, London, [10 April 1873]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Alexander Main
Date(s)
- 1873-04-10
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to Alexander Main, London, [10 April 1873]
Text: Main's copy owned by Mr. John R. Sprunt. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Thursday.
My dear Main
Go on and prosper! The two chapters read very well -- I haven't compared them with Boswell but only tried them as the ordinary reader will. Except a few deletes and a few changes of expression which I have marked in pencil there is nothing to suggest in the way of alteration. Yes -- there is one thing -- avoid as much as you can the habit of small quotation -- I mean familiar scraps like "seriously inclined." They give a journalistic made-up air to writing. Good quotations lighten up a page.
Ever yours in great haste
G. H. L.
Text: Main's copy owned by Mr. John R. Sprunt. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Thursday.
My dear Main
Go on and prosper! The two chapters read very well -- I haven't compared them with Boswell but only tried them as the ordinary reader will. Except a few deletes and a few changes of expression which I have marked in pencil there is nothing to suggest in the way of alteration. Yes -- there is one thing -- avoid as much as you can the habit of small quotation -- I mean familiar scraps like "seriously inclined." They give a journalistic made-up air to writing. Good quotations lighten up a page.
Ever yours in great haste
G. H. L.
Signature
G. H. L.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Alexander Main, London, [10 April 1873], 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/94382