George Eliot's reading of Adolf Stahr's works

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 31 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.

Cross, 1, 290-91, 304-05. Part I of Torso is noticed in The Leader, 6 (17 March 1855), 257-58, and Part II, in The Westminster Review, 65 (1856), 633-37. On the importance of Torso to George Eliot, see Joseph Wiesenfarth, "George Eliot's Notes for Adam Bede," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 32 (1977), 148-49.

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