172 Notes to pages 81–7
- Ibid., p. 262, my emphasis.
- Ibid., p. 14.
- Melman, ‘Claiming the Nation’s Past’, p. 585.
- Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, p. 571.
- Ibid., p. 574.
- Herbert Enoch Hallam rightly calls into doubt the marriage of Richard and Torfrida as
recorded in the history of Crowland Abbey, a text attributed to Abbot Ingulph: ‘it makes
Richard de Rulos, who is supposed to be a contemporary of the Conqueror, husband
to the grand-daughter of Hereward, who was also a contemporary of the Conqueror’.
Kingsley uses the Historia Croylandensis for much of the detail of Richard’s life and the
marriage of Torfrida, of Anglo-Danish origin, and Richard, of Norman stock, clearly
suits his reconciliatory fi nale. See H. E. Hallam, Settlement and Society: A Study of the
Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1965), p. 117. - Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, p. 575.
- Young , ‘History as Myth’, p. 178.
- G. Lukács, Th e Historical Novel, trans. S. Mitchell and H. Mitchell (Lincoln, NE: Uni-
versity of Nebraska Press, 1962), pp. 54–5. - ‘Norman and Medieval Times’, Great Fen, at http://www.greatfen.org.uk/heritage/
Norman-Medieval [accessed 15 July 2013].
6 Mathieson, ‘“Wandering Like a Wild Th ing”: Rurality, Women and
Walking in George Eliot’s Adam Bede and Th e Mill on the Floss’
- See G. Eliot, ‘Th e Natural History of German Life’ (1856), in T. Pinney (ed.), Th e Essays
of George Eliot (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963), pp. 266–99; essay originally
published in Westminster Review, 66 ( July 1856). - Joseph Wiesenfarth’s essay ‘George Eliot’s Notes on Adam Bede’ details extracts from Eli-
ot’s Commonplace Book to show ‘that extensive research supplemented “experience” in
the creation of characters and incidents’; J. Wiesenfarth, ‘George Eliot’s notes on Adam
Bede’, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 32:2 (1977), pp. 127–65, on p. 127. Contemporary
responses to Adam Bede particularly praise the distinctness with which Eliot captures
details of rural life; see S. Hutchinson (ed.) George Eliot: Critical Assessments, 4 vols
(Robertsbridge, East Sussex: Helm Information, 1996), vol. 1, pp. 73–109. See also H.
Auster, Local Habitations: Regionalism in the Early Novels of George Eliot (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1970). - Raymond Williams asserts that ‘though Eliot restores the real inhabitants of rural Eng-
land to their places in what had been a socially selective landscape, she does not get
much further than restoring them as a landscape’; see R. Williams, Th e Country and
City (1973) (London: Hogarth, 1993), p. 168. Other works critical of Eliot’s limited
social vision include: T. Eagleton, Criticism and Ideolog y: A Study in Marxist Literary
Th eory (London: New Left Books, 1976); S. Dentith, George Eliot (Brighton: Harvester
Press, 1986); in the context of rurality, Karen Sayer points out that the representation of
Hetty ‘employs every cliché of the dairymaid myth’; see K. Sayer, Women of the Fields:
Representations of Rural Women in the Nineteenth-Century (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1995), p. 107. On nostalgia and the pastoral, Josephine McDonagh
usefully summarizes the idealized pastoral impulses in Eliot’s early work in relation to