Note 43 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.
Richard Ellmann, Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 33, and A. E. S. Viner, George Eliot (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1971), p. 86
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