The Vincys, they thought Fred wrote Mary's book and Mary, Fred's.

one hesitates to go on this is so awful, and yet just today i picked up Middlemarch, again

and so i am inspired because Charing Cross for one, and because books are being looked at ... and copy continues to be posted ...  on the post

pole really

so there's that and today is Wednesday, and washing needs to be done... because that is what the day is for

so i only got so far into the beginning about Miss Brook and her infatuation with Casaubon her predisposition to admire him and her sister being younger and not understanding her religious bent... which is surely what it is after all

so we have a girl with a religious bent
if you don't find it interesting you would be just like many of the men
she is a Love her or hate her person

and Will worships, not at first, because he cannot believe that she is for real, and as the truth comes to dawn on him, he Loves her

and she Loves him back
which is Lucky for him
isn't it?

having nothing to recommend him in the kind of society in which they are Living

and she had an idea to start a kind of a community, which is a bad idea turns out, not recommended by Garth but he is modelled after Evans who was theoretically religious but not as a practical matter, on the contrary

and the split from her brother
is it in there?  Did she purge it all in The Mill On The Floss

and her relationship with Lewes, certainly he gets a lot of credit
but she worked hard before he came into the picture
perhaps she would not have turned toward fiction ?
can we credit him with the storyTELLER

and she combined the one about the doctor and the one about the girl, the ardent girl

and people always SAY, she would have been so good for Lydgate except that, like Will, he didn't appreciate her peculiar style either, but later compared to Rosy... well...

today i only got as far as the hairs growing out of the moles on Casaubon's face .... lol

Mary Ann named herself George.  After Mr. Lewes, and who Eliot?  She is fascinated by all things American.  She adores Ralph.  She calls him the only grown up man she ever met.  Sounds familiar.  Maybe it is certainly due to Aurore's influence, Ms.Sand.  And maybe will have to go digging for the Eliot, with one L.  It is probably Jane's Anne and those of Kellynch Hall who she has in mind.

Jane was in her heydeys when Mary Ann was a girl.  Everyone knew.  Mary Branwell certainly named all of her daughters after the heroines of Austin.  On purpose?  It's possible.  Is it probable?  Was she a bestseller?

Something to look into.  I know that Charlotte knew of her.  Anyone in Letters certainly.  Scott adored her.  She got a review from The Prince himself which says that she was famous.  And how much greater an influence had she then?  Perhaps it is not too much a stretch to think she singlehandedly ushered in the Victorian Age with her restraint.

Adeline Stephen was there for the revival of the big three and the tiresome sister.  She contributed to it with her treatments.  And shaped my opinions for sure.

So the way it works.  You pick a title.  And then you write. This is Charing Cross.  doing better