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030 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 6 March 1875.
in note 2:
...ty looks for a pond in which to drown herself, Eliot writes: ‘At last she was among the fields she...
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.
066 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Monday, 17 January 1876.
in note 1:
George Eliot’s novel Felix Holt, the radical (1866) tells the love story of Felix Holt and Esther L...
070 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 19 February 1876.
in translation:
...st few days I’ve been reading a beautiful book by Eliot, 3 stories, ‘Scenes of clerical life’.
in note 8:
... recited at the funeral comes from John 11:25. Eliot quotes only the words ‘I am the Resurrection ...
in note 5:
... the sake of being near the poor people’. George Eliot, Scenes of clerical life and Silas Marner. E...
in note 4:
George Eliot, Scenes of clerical life (1857) contains the stories ‘The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend...
082 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Friday, 12 May 1876.
in translation:
... bottom of one’s heart. In one of his books, Eliot describes the life of factory workers &c. who...
in note 5:
Van Gogh mistakenly took George Eliot, the pseudonym of Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans, to be a man. He r...
... took George Eliot, the pseudonym of Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans, to be a man. He refers here to Silas...
088 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 18 August 1876.
in note 21:
For Eliot’s Scenes of clerical life, see letter 70, n. 4 and for Felix Holt, the radical, see lette...
in translation:
...de anyone to read Scenes from clerical life by Eliot, and Felix Holt, you’ll be doing a good deed....
090 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, between about Saturday, 2 and Friday, 8 September 1876.
in note 17:
An allusion to George Eliot’s Felix Holt: ‘But I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen...
095 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, between Monday, 23 and on or about Wednesday, 25 October 1876.
in translation:
... if the love of Christ constrains us. How well Eliot can describe them. Life in the world is chasten...
in note 11:
George Eliot.
096 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 3 November 1876.
in translation:
... on in life, I recommended ‘Felix Holt’ by Eliot to him. It was lovely in the park with the old ...
in note 90:
The novel Felix Holt, the radical by George Eliot; see letter 66, n. 1.
099 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 25 November 1876.
in note 3:
George Eliot, ‘Two lovers’. See George Eliot, Collected poems. Ed. Lucien Jenkins. London 1989, p...
101 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Sunday, 21 January 1877.
in translation:
...you be able to come as well? I hope to give Pa Eliot’s ‘Novellen’ (a translation of Scenes fro...
in note 4:
George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859). For his birthday Mr van Gogh received Eliot’s Silas Marner in addit...
in note 3:
The Dutch translation of George Eliot’s Scenes of clerical life was called Novellen (uit het Engels...
102 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Wednesday, 7 and Thursday, 8 February 1877.
in note 1:
...Rott., D. Bolle.) 1871’) and as vol. 2 of George Eliot’s romantic works: ‘Uit het Engelsch. Nie...
135 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 24 and Sunday, 25 November 1877.
in translation:
...face there one could read, as it were, what one can find in those English books by Eliot and others.
140 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 10 February 1878.
in note 11:
... husband’s parish. The novel Adam Bede by George Eliot features the preacher Dinah Morris, who visi...
142 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 3 March 1878.
in translation:
...e somehow to get hold of and read the books by Eliot, you won’t be sorry, Adam Bede, Silas Marner,...
in note 14:
George Eliot, Silas Marner. The weaver of Raveloe (1861), a novel about village life in the English M...
146 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 5 August 1878.
in translation:
...utiful. In the evenings we also occasionally read from Silas Marner by Eliot, the story of a weaver.
in note 4:
...the apostle Paul Van Gogh refers here. See for Eliot’s Silas Marner. The weaver of Raveloe, lette...
187 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Saturday, 19 November 1881.
in translation:
...ce, Michelet and Beecher Stowe, Carlyle and George Eliot, and how many others, they call to us, ‘O ...
193 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, on or about Friday, 23 December 1881.
in translation:
... read Michelet or Balzac or Eliot, but I see completely different things in the ...
232 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 28 May 1882.
in translation:
...lize that the English writers like Dickens and Eliot and Currer Bell, and among the French Balzac, a...
267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
in note 26:
See Eliot 1980, pp. 66, 80. Eliot took the quotation from Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlow...
in translation:
...xactly improvements in my view. I once read in Eliot ‘though it be dead, yet let me think it lives...
294 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Wednesday, 13 and about Monday, 18 December 1882.
in note 8:
In her novel The mill on the Floss (1860) George Eliot wrote: ‘But they will believe me. I will con...
316 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 15 February 1883.
in translation:
I’m reading Eliot, Middlemarch. Eliot analyzes like Balzac or Zola, but English situations and with...
in note 15:
George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch. A study of provincial life (1871) is set in the town of Middlemar...
324 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 4 March 1883.
in translation:
...ether that I feel at home with them? Lately I read the following in Felix Holt the Radical by Eliot.
in note 5:
... particular the last sentence is different. George Eliot writes: ‘I don’t say more bearable to me...
332 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 21 March 1883.
in translation:
...dering of the effect of light, fabric, colour. Eliot really has that ‘something different’, whic...
... I’m getting at, among other things, is that Eliot is masterly in execution, but above and beyond ...
I recently re-read Eliot’s Felix Holt, The radical. This book has been very well translated into Du...
in note 13:
George Eliot, Felix Holt, de radikaal: een verhaal, uit het Engelsch vertaald door Mevr. van Westrhee...
337 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 21 April 1883.
in translation:
... of the character of Felix Holt the radical by Eliot. There’s something broad and rough in him tha...
in note 9:
For the protagonist of George Eliot’s novel Felix Holt, the radical, see letter 66, n. 1.
437 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 13 March 1884.
in note 2:
Zemel linked this passage with the ideas of George Eliot and Thomas Carlyle; see Zemel 1997, pp. 62-6...
686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.
in translation:
...rs that Tolstoy takes an enormous interest in his people’s religion. Like George Eliot in England.
in note 9:
George Eliot, whose books Van Gogh had read in his youth, believed that orthodox Christianity must be...
812 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 21 October 1889.
in note 12:
... sober, simple way of life – idealised by George Eliot – chosen by the resolute protagonist Felix...

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3 essay items found

Publication history / The first standard editions
in publications_3:
...tto for this edition, was also the motto of George Eliot’s The mill on the Floss (1860) and the las...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
...heo to do the same and only read the Bible. George Eliot, and more especially her Scenes of clerical ...
Biographical & historical context / The family and children of the Reverend and Mrs Van Gogh
in context_1:
...the family were familiar with the novels of George Eliot, the fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen a...

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Chronology
in 1883:
About 21 March #Re-reads George Eliot’s Felix Holt, the radical (332).
Spring #Reads Eliot’s Middlemarch (316). Re-reads Carlyle’s Sartor resartus (274, 325) and H...
in 1876:
Mid-January #Reads George Eliot’s Felix Holt, the radical (66).
February #Reads Eliot’s Scenes of clerical life(70).

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28 letters, 3 essay items and 1 other item found

28 letters found

3 essay items found

1 other item found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters