Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920

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174 Notes to pages 92–9



  1. Ibid., p. 94.

  2. Ibid., p. 93.

  3. Ibid., p. 144.

  4. Ibid., p. 324.

  5. Ibid., pp. 333–4. Arthur and Hetty’s meetings take place: pp. 142–5; pp. 148–50; Het-
    ty’s recollection of a meeting is given on p. 273; and Adam gives Arthur’s letter, ending
    the relationship, to Hetty whilst ‘walk[ing ] out’ in the garden, pp. 347–52.

  6. Eliot, Th e Mill on the Floss, pp. 311–19, 344–50.

  7. Ibid., p. 348.

  8. Ibid., pp. 310, 312.

  9. Ibid., p. 464.

  10. Ibid., p. 465.

  11. Ibid., p. 504, my emphasis.

  12. Ibid., p. 484.

  13. Ibid.

  14. Ibid., p. 485.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Ibid., p. 311.

  17. Eliot, Adam Bede, p. 141.

  18. Eliot, Th e Mill on the Floss, pp. 504, 503.

  19. Ibid., pp. 510, 511. Knoepfl macher notes that contemporary critics viewed Maggie’s
    escape with Stephen as a ‘wicked’ and ‘indulgent’ act; see Knoepfl macher, George Eliot’s
    Early Novels, p. 214.

  20. Eliot, Th e Mill on the Floss, p. 511.

  21. Ibid., p. 510.

  22. Ibid., p. 9.

  23. Ibid., pp. 33, 38.

  24. Ibid., p. 348.

  25. Ibid., p. 500.

  26. On Dinah Morris’s mobility see Beer, George Eliot, pp. 58–74; and Parkins, Mobility and
    Modernity in Women’s Novels, pp. 33–47.

  27. Eliot, Adam Bede, p. 403.

  28. Beer, George Eliot, p. 63.

  29. Eliot, Adam Bede, pp. 366–8.

  30. L. Armitt, George Eliot: Adam Bede, Th e Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch (New York:
    Colombia University Press, 2000), p. 41.

  31. Parkins, Mobility and Modernity in Women’s Novels, p. 21.

  32. Eliot, Adam Bede, pp. 408, 407, 409.

  33. Ibid., p. 408.

  34. Parkins, Mobility and Modernity in Women’s Novels, p. 42.

  35. Despite what appears to modern readers to be a restrained encoding of Hetty’s preg-
    nancy and labour, contemporary reviewers of Adam Bede were critical of what they saw
    as an explicit articulation of female physicality; see Hutchinson, George Eliot: Critical
    Assessments, pp. 73–109.

  36. Eliot, Adam Bede, pp. 407, 404.

  37. Ibid., p. 417.

  38. Ibid., p. 420.

  39. Ibid., pp. 421–2.

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