Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) (495 page)
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Authors: George Eliot
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This collection of three novellas is Eliot’s first printed fictional work, published in
Blackwood’s Magazine
in 1857, initially anonymously, before being released as a two-volume set by Blackwood and Sons the following year.
The three stories are set during the last twenty years of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century over a fifty year period, and they take place in the fictional town of Milby in the English Midlands. Each of the ‘Scenes’ introduces a different Anglican clergyman, as Eliot examines the effects of religious reform and the tension between the Established and the Dissenting Churches on the clergymen and their congregations, drawing attention to social issues such as poverty,
alcoholism and domestic violence.
An early illustration accompanying the collection.