George Eliot Quotes
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Blackwood and Sons, 1871-1872.
This was the classic liberal / conservative dichotomy. Jefferson the visionary with hopes and dreams of the future was willing to spend public money to double the size of the country. Ames a conservative, a member and leading figure of the opposition Federalist party, did not want to use precious public money for land that was not immediately needed for any purpose. The Federalist Party was on its last legs in America despite the fact that George Washington was a Federalist. Americans at the time were looking forward—not back. The new territory was the locus of scientific studies of the day with the Lewis & Clark Expedition so the investment was in much more than land. Security was also a factor as it gave foreign governments less of a foothold on our continent.
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England and most of her works are set there. They are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
