HUSBAND JOHN CROSS on HIS WIFE OF SEVERAL MONTHS GEORGE ELIOT : PRESERVING HER LEGACY

GUTENBERG ORG : THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT by HER HUSBAND JOHN CROSS 

A great number of images include etching of George and various houses she lived in, including that of her family stead.  Titled GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE as related in her Letters and Journals - Arranged and Edited By Her Husband J.W. Cross, this is another opportunity to read a book on line.

Notes:  The very last chapter of part three outlines the relationship between George and John.  He had known her as a friend of her family from his youth and was just as interested in literature as she and G. H. Lewes, who he also knew.  Cross reports that after the death of Lewes, George was in grief although she was also trying to attend to her husband's manuscripts (writing), and that she herself was in failing health with bouts of pain (renal failure), and that she did ask for him to come and visit her.  George is dealing with depression and physical pain from her own illness and in her letters she discusses her daily doings, concerns with literature, as well as her problems.

Excerpt:  During our short married life our time was so much divided between travelling and illness that George Eliot wrote very little, so that I have but slight personal experience of how the creative effort affected her. But she told me that, in all that she considered her best writing, there was a 'Not herself," which took possession of her, and that she felt her own personality to be merely the instrument through which this spirit, as it were, was acting. 

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