Note 54 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.
Anna B. Jameson, Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts, 2d ed. (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1857), pp. 326, 329. On the possible influence of Mrs. Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art upon Middlemarch, see Gillian Beer, "Myth and the Single Consciousness: Middlemarch and The Lifted Veil," in This Particular Web, ed. Ian Adam (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975), pp. 107-09.
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