GEORGE ELIOTS WIFE
The blunder* that are made in reganl to literarv people by those who should know Utter are aleurd enough but those Who have had no opportunitv to inform themselves in such matters ean go even beyond' these mistakes in dioll errors. At an author's reading recently given in Boston for the benefit ot a working girts elub there were present a number ot working girl* who nave tor the most r-art small chance to keep themselve- tnl-rme-i ot tne historv or personalitv of authors. Among the readers wa- Mr* Maud Howe Eliot, daughter Julia an! Howe, and author of several novek M hen the reading -i her selection came, one girl wa* overheard to say to another = ~',A int ' he lovely i I'm awfully glad to see her. lal wav«li«i want to sec Oeorge Eliot s wife-* The conru-ion of ideas in the speaker's mind l-etween the ining authors or America an-i the departed novelist* of England must have been pretty complete.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 23, 7 June 1890, Page 10
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165GEORGE ELIOTS WIFE New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 23, 7 June 1890, Page 10
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