Note 4 to Chapter 4 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.
For a different view, see Knoepflmacher, George Eliot's Early Novels, p. 49: "Barton is grossly caricatured."
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