Note 23 to Chapter 6 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.
On the similarities between George Eliot's naturalism and that of the Pre-Raphaelites,
see John Murdoch, "English Realism: George Eliot and the
Pre-Raphaelites," Journal
of the Warburg and Courtauld lnstitutes, 37 (1974), 313-29.
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