GEORGE ELIOT

Volume: 4, pts. 7-8 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mill...

' "If a woman really believes herself to be a lower kind of being, she should place herself in subjection . . . If not, let her show her power of choosing something better." ' This is the challenge thrown down to Esther Lyon, George Eliot's heroine in Felix Holt: The Radical (1866). Esther's 'airs and graces', her proud and sensitive dreams of m...

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