Note 2 to Chapter 2 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Her first book was The Linnet's Life: Twelve Poems, with a copper plate engraving to each (London: G. de W. B. Whittaker, B. J. Holdsworth, 1822). She kept this book until the end of her life, and said that she had "thought the pictures beautiful, especially the one where the linnet is feeding her young" (Cross, I, 15). Her watercolors included two pictures of "floral arrangements -- honeysuckle, moss rose, auricula, and so on, the stems lightly caught in a bow of blue ribbon" (Haight, p. 11).
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