George Eliot Quotes
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Eliot, George. "O May I Join the Choir Invisible." The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, William Blackwood and Sons, 1874.
The League refers to The Tenant League which united Irish factions that had been disparate before.
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.