GHL to J. R. Osgood and Co., Shottermill, 17 July 1871
Title
GHL to J. R. Osgood and Co., Shottermill, 17 July 1871
Title
GHL to J. R. Osgood and Co., Shottermill, 17 July 1871
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
J. R. Osgood and Co.
Date(s)
- 1871-07-17
Place
Shottermill
Letter Content
GHL to J. R. Osgood and Co., Shottermill, 17 July 1871
Text: Anderson Galleries Catalogue 1378 (12 December 1918), item 153.
Shotter Mill, | Nr Petersfield.
The probable length of the new novel will be 4 volumes of some three hundred pages each of the size of [Adam Bede] and [Felix Holt,] or near it. 325 You can calculate according to your own edition what is the length of our volumes.
As to its character, it will be a novel of English provincial life, time 1830. But as to its title we are not absolutely fixed, though in all probability it will be [Middlemarch,] and each part will have a subtitle, thus: Part I: [Miss Brooke]; Part II: [Old and Young]; Part III: [Dorothea Married.] If you advertise it, only advertise [Middlemarch] and [Miss Brooke.]
Text: Anderson Galleries Catalogue 1378 (12 December 1918), item 153.
Shotter Mill, | Nr Petersfield.
The probable length of the new novel will be 4 volumes of some three hundred pages each of the size of [Adam Bede] and [Felix Holt,] or near it. 325 You can calculate according to your own edition what is the length of our volumes.
As to its character, it will be a novel of English provincial life, time 1830. But as to its title we are not absolutely fixed, though in all probability it will be [Middlemarch,] and each part will have a subtitle, thus: Part I: [Miss Brooke]; Part II: [Old and Young]; Part III: [Dorothea Married.] If you advertise it, only advertise [Middlemarch] and [Miss Brooke.]
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to J. R. Osgood and Co., Shottermill, 17 July 1871, 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/94570