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George Eliot and the production of consumers

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From: Novel
Date: 19970101
Author:Leah Price

In 1866, George Henry Lewes wrote that "it is a pity that [Felix Holt] isn't quite ready for publication just in the thick of the great reform discussion so many good quotable 'bits' would be furnished to M.P.s" (Eliot, Letters 8: 374). The absence of George Eliot quotations from that debate has been more than compensated for by their ubiquity in other venues. Before her death, excerpts from Eliot appear in an anthology, on a calendar, in four schoolbooks, on an army officers' examination, in a sermon, in one reader's copy of the New Testament, and as epigraphs to a socialist treatise and an ...

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