174 Notes to pages 92–9
- Ibid., p. 94.
- Ibid., p. 93.
- Ibid., p. 144.
- Ibid., p. 324.
- 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. - Eliot, Th e Mill on the Floss, pp. 311–19, 344–50.
- Ibid., p. 348.
- Ibid., pp. 310, 312.
- Ibid., p. 464.
- Ibid., p. 465.
- Ibid., p. 504, my emphasis.
- Ibid., p. 484.
- Ibid.
- Ibid., p. 485.
- Ibid.
- Ibid., p. 311.
- Eliot, Adam Bede, p. 141.
- Eliot, Th e Mill on the Floss, pp. 504, 503.
- 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. - Eliot, Th e Mill on the Floss, p. 511.
- Ibid., p. 510.
- Ibid., p. 9.
- Ibid., pp. 33, 38.
- Ibid., p. 348.
- Ibid., p. 500.
- On Dinah Morris’s mobility see Beer, George Eliot, pp. 58–74; and Parkins, Mobility and
Modernity in Women’s Novels, pp. 33–47. - Eliot, Adam Bede, p. 403.
- Beer, George Eliot, p. 63.
- Eliot, Adam Bede, pp. 366–8.
- L. Armitt, George Eliot: Adam Bede, Th e Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch (New York:
Colombia University Press, 2000), p. 41. - Parkins, Mobility and Modernity in Women’s Novels, p. 21.
- Eliot, Adam Bede, pp. 408, 407, 409.
- Ibid., p. 408.
- Parkins, Mobility and Modernity in Women’s Novels, p. 42.
- 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. - Eliot, Adam Bede, pp. 407, 404.
- Ibid., p. 417.
- Ibid., p. 420.
- Ibid., pp. 421–2.