IS GEORGE ELIOT DULL?
Sir-In "Speaking Candidly" G.M. intimates that he finds George Eliot "monumentally dull.’ I think he is doing himself the injustice, as he has done before, of judging an author rashly without renewing his acquaintance with ‘the offending author. I think if *G.M. had read the best of George Eliot as an adult he would have approved of her integrity in drawing from life, and though he~-might dislike her for her intelligence or scoff at her standards he would surely have recognised her as an ally in fighting those very things he objects to in Hollywood. I picked up two of her books that were handy and in 20 minutes had found three passages that appealed. I should not call a book monumentally dull if I found. one appealing Passage for every hour’s reading.
"MARY ANNE EVANS"
(Dunedin). |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 301, 29 March 1945, Page 5
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141IS GEORGE ELIOT DULL? New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 301, 29 March 1945, Page 5
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