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Orts 28, 1993, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

The recently released animated film, The Princess and the Goblin – directed by Jozef Gemes, is reviewed in the January issue of Sight and Sound by Leslie Felperin Sharman. The Review is preceded by a plot summary and a list of credits.

Orts 30, 1993, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The AGM will take place on Monday November 8th at 7.15 p.m. The meeting will be held at St. Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. We hope to have an outside speaker to address the Meeting which is, of course, open to all (although only paid-up members can vote).

An Irish Landscape In Beckett’S Fiction, Laura Barge

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Country House Entertainments In Milton’S Paradise Lost, D. M. Rosenberg

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

When The Priest Is A Woman: Female Clergy And The Detective Novel, Linda K. Robertson

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

“I Wol Thee Telle Al Plat”: Poetic Influence In Chaucer’S Pardoner, Dana E. Aspinall

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Motif Of Water In Charles Kingsley’S The Water-Babies, Brendon Rapple

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

‘So Unlike The Normal Lunatic’: Abnormal Psychology In Bram Stoker’S Dracula, William Hughes

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Robin Hood’S “Irish Knife”: Irony In The Guy Of Gisborne Ballad, George Swan

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Return Of The Repressed In M. R. James’ Martin's Close, Cyndy Hendershot

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Waugh’S The Loved One: A Classic/Romantic Paradigm, Brooke Allen

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Fetishism And Fantasy In Bennett’S The Old Country And Single Spies, Larry Langford

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Form And Content In The English History Play: The Evolution Of A Mature Dramatic Style In Shakespeare’S York And Lancaster Cycles, Daniel L. Wright

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Family Resemblances: Intertextual Dialogue Between Father And Daughter Novelists In Godwin’S St. Leon And Shelley’S Frankenstein, Gregory Maertz

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Discerning Motive: Another Look At Trollope’S Warden, Kevin Floyd

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

“Conceal Me What I Am”: Reading The Second Scene Of Twelfth Night, Stephen Ratcliffe

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Apotheosis Of The Hero In Eighteenth Century Tragedy: A Look At Addison’S Cato And Home’S Douglas Milton, Milton Jeffrey Waldrop

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Failed Quests For Ideal Love: Jude The Obscure As A Paradigm For The Wild Palms, Margaret D. Bauer

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Illusory Angel: The Perfect Victorian Wife, Anne Razey Gowdy

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Review Of George Eliot: Ihr Leben, John Rignall

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

In the epilogue to her life of George Eliot Elsemarie Maletzke pays tribute to the work of Gordon S. Haight and states that biographers who have come after him have found nothing really new to add beyond a more critical assessment of Eliot's person. The statement is true at least of this biography, which makes no claims to new findings and which follows Haight closely, often to the point of citing the same passages from letters or journals, while at the same time adopting an altogether less respectful and more critical attitude towards its subject. Where Haight reports without comment …

George Eliot To William Blackwood Iii: Two Unpublished Letters, David Finkelstein

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

George Eliot's business and personal relations with John Blackwood, head of the Edinburgh publishing firm William Blackwood & Sons from 1852-1879, have been well documented in Gordon Haight's detailed biographical study and his edition of her letters. On John's death in 1879, his nephew William Blackwood III took over the running of the firm, and continued maintaining close business and personal contact with George Eliot until her death on 22 December 1880. Two unpublished letters relating to the death of William' s brother George Frederick Blackwood, found in MS. 30,039 of the Blackwood files in the National Library of Scotland, …

Metaphor, Truth And The Mobile Imagination In The Mill On The Floss, John Rignall

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The relationship, and conflict, between brother and sister that lies at the heart of The Mill on the Floss involves not only important differences of character and gender, but also radically different modes of thought and expression. The contrast between narrow- minded Tom and large-souled Maggie is, among other things, a contrast between different forms of knowledge and different ways of using language. For Tom, with his 'conscious rectitude of purpose' and 'narrowness of imagination and intellect', 1 knowledge is unquestioning, unhesitating, and immune to doubt. No shadow of epistemological uncertainty dims the harsh light by which he sees and …

A Note On Hermione In Daniel Deronda, Derek Miller

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After a paragraph in which the narrator sympathetically examines Rex's love for his cousin Gwendolen, the young people plan a tableau vivant at Offendene. Gwendolen rejects Rex's suggestion of himself as Achilles, with Gwendolen as Briseis, then agrees with his next idea that she should be Hermione as the statue, and he Leontes, from The Winter's Tale. During the playing of this scene, and provoked. perhaps. by the 'thunderous chord' (91)1 struck by Herr Klesmer on the piano. the panel on the wall opens to disclose what the family saw on the day of their moving in, 'the picture of …

The George Eliot Review: Journal Of The George Eliot Fellowship 1993 No. 24, Graham Handley, Beryl Gray

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Contents

Notes on Contributors......................... 5

Jonathan Ouvry: Message of Greeting from the Fellowship President............ 7

Kathleen Adams: Annual Report 1992................... 9

Graham Handley and Beryl Gray: London Branch Report 1992..................... 14

Linda Robertson: Wreath-laying at Westminster Abbey, June 20th 1992........... 16

Canon Michael Sadgrove: Wreath-laying in the George Eliot Memorial Gardens, Nuneaton, June 28th 1992.............. 20

Bernard Bergonzi: Oration for Kathleen Adams on the occasion of her Honorary Master of Arts degree award from the University of Warwick, July 16th 1992.............. 23

Ruth Harris: The Twenty-First George Eliot Memorial Lecture, October 17th 1992............. 25

The Twenty-Second George Eliot Memorial Lecture: George Eliot In The Letters Of George Henry Lewes, William Baker

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

I am preparing an edition of the letters of G. H. Lewes.1 The edition is selective. It does not include those 722 G. H. Lewes items (letters, extracts from his journals and diaries) included in Gordon S. Haight's monumental The George Eliot Letters published in nine volumes by Yale University Press between 1954-55 and in 1978.2 My edition includes nearly 500 letters of which less than 50 have been previously published, making a just over 1,200 total of G. H. Lewes letters in print: a figure contrasting with upwards of 3,500 George Eliot letters in Haight's edition, less than 2,000 …

London Report 1993, Graham Handley, Beryl Gray

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This is our farewell note as officers of the London Branch. We resigned in April, Michael Forrest our Secretary in March. We understand that the Fellowship Council has approved Elizabeth Gundrey's ideas for a number of events to be held in the future in the London area, and we hope that these will be well supported.

Martha Barclay To Issac Evans, Kathleen Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Martha Barclay (nee Jackson) was a school-fellow of George Eliot's in Coventry in the 1830's. It was Martha who initiated the choice of flower names for herself and her friend - Ivy (constancy) for herself and Clematis (mental beauty) for George Eliot. Letters from George Eliot to Martha have been published in Volume 1 of The George Eliot Letters edited by Gordon S. Haight (1954), but Martha had been pressed by John Cross to allow him to publish them in his biography. This she refused because she felt she could not trust George Eliot's widower to select satisfactorily. She planned …

Message Of Greeting From The Fellowship President, Jonathan G. Ouvry

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

I write my annual greeting to members of the George Eliot Fellowship surrounded by inspiring objects. To my right not one, but two bronzes, John Letts's bust of George Eliot and his statue miniature, the latter next to a beautifully bound 1863 Tauchnitz copy of Romola Vol I (what happened to Vol 11 I wonder?) inscribed 'Blanche Southwood Lewes from her mother Florence, April 1892'. I first read Romola when on holiday, but unfortunately not in Florence, and found it hard to understand why it has acquired the reputation of being George Eliot's most difficult novel.

Some Notes On George Eliot And Greek Myth, Lesley Gordon

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These notes comment first of all upon some points in Joseph Wiesenfarth's article 'Mythic Perspectives in George Eliot's Fiction' in The George Eliot Review, 24, 1993.

One of his interpretations of an allusion to Greek myth relates to Farebrother's remark to Lydgate that:

I am not a mighty man - I shall never be a man of renown. The choice of Hercules is a pretty fable; but Prodicus makes it easy to work for the hero, as if the first resolves were enough. Another story says that he came to hold the distaff, and at least wore the Nessus shirt. …

Mythic Perspectives In George Eliot's Fiction, Joseph Wiesenfarth

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George Eliot developed a systematic sense of myth and mythmaking when she read and translated D.F. Strauss's Das Leben Jesu kritish bearbeitet into The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (1846). Strauss carries on his monumental work of demythologizing the gospels by affirming that myth represents the truth of human feelings and aspirations and that these themselves are an expression of the Idea that divinity and humanity are to be united. This Hegelian theory of the place of primitive Christianity in the evolution of man's historical destiny depends for its elaboration on the conception of myth that Strauss derived from Karl …