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George Eliot's novella "The Lifted Veil" was first published in 1859. Eliot had written "The Lifted Veil" between the publication of her first novel Adam Bede, and that of her second novel, The Mill on the Floss. Eliot's publisher was hesitant to publish the story, because it was nothing like Adam Bede, for which she had gained critical acclaim. He was concerned that this tale of horror would be bad for her literary reputation...

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The Lifted Veil

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George Eliot wrote nearly all of her nonfiction prose during two widely separated periods in her life. As Marian Evans, in her mid thirties, she produced more than sixty critical essays that appeared ... Read more

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Biography EssayThe most learned and respected novelist of the late Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biog... Read more