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030 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 6 March 1875.
in note 2:
...sun were setting behind it.’ George Eliot, Adam Bede. 2 vols. Edinburgh and London 1859, vol. 2, c...
in note 1:
Adam Bede (1859) by George Eliot is a novel about an ambitious young carpenter. He falls in lo...
044 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 4 September 1875.
in note 3:
Regarding this passage from George Eliot’s Adam Bede, see letter 30, n. 1 and 2.
101 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Sunday, 21 January 1877.
in note 4:
George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859). For his birthday Mr van Gogh received Eliot’s Silas Marner in addit...
...ogh received Eliot’s Silas Marner in addition to Adam Bede and Novellen (see letters 102 and 142).
102 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Wednesday, 7 and Thursday, 8 February 1877.
in note 2:
...e present was well chosen: Mr van Gogh found Adam Bede a ‘wonderful thing to have’ (FR b2507, 19...
in note 1:
The available translation of Adam Bede cost 2.90 guilders; presumably Van Gogh received the bookshop ...
140 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 10 February 1878.
in note 11:
...he sick in her husband’s parish. The novel Adam Bede by George Eliot features the preacher Dinah M...
142 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 3 March 1878.
in note 14:
...rlem 1864 and Rotterdam 1864. For Eliot’s Adam Bede, see letter 30, n. 1, for Felix Holt, the rad...

Biographical & historical context / The letter-writing culture and Van Gogh’s position within it
in context_2:
...ck person which sounded like something out of Adam Bede’ (letter 140). Cf. Ruberg 2005, pp. 97-98.

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