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...maternal
delight.
"Forgive me, if I speak hastily," he said, with diffident gravity. "Why
have you resolved now on disclosing to me what you took care to have me
brought up in ignorance of? Why--since you seem angry that I should be
glad?"
"Oh--the reasons of our actions!" said the Princess, with a ring of
something like sarcastic scorn. "When you are as old as I am, it will not
seem so simple a question--'Why did you do this?' People talk of their
motives in a cut and dried way.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
I am not a monster, but I have
not felt exactly what other women feel--or say they feel, for fear of
being thought unlike others. When you reproach me in your heart for
sending you away from me, you mean that I ought to say I felt about you as
other women say they feel about their children. I did _not_ feel that. I
was glad to be freed from you. But I did well for you, and I gave you your
father's fortune. Do I seem now to be revoking everything?--Well, there
are reasons. I feel many...
Eliot, George
Excerpt from Daniel Deronda ·
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George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880), who was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity.
She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as merely a writer of romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes.
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