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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Eliot, George

Eliot, George
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Introduction

Social Background:

Revolution was the key word of nineteenth-century Europe. It was the age
of industrial revolution, of scientific upheaval culminating in Charles
Darwin's Origin of Species, of political transformations brought on by the
appeals of nationalism, liberalism and-at length-socialism. Although it
escaped the violence and bloodshed that attended the change in the Continent,
Britain emerged triumphant from the Napoleonic wars, and faced a series of
economic and social crises. These years, the years of maturity for George
Eliot ...

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