Hetty's Ambition

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 54 to Chapter 5 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.

Compare William E. Buckler, "Memory, Morality, and the Tragic Vision in the Early Novels of George Eliot," in The English Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Essays on the Literary Mediation of Human Values, ed. George Goodin (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972), p. 147: "In imagining herself a 'great lady,' she creates in the mirror an ironic image of a courtesan."

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