In the 'Life' of George Eliot, John Walter.... : Quote by Rebecca Mead

“ In the 'Life' of George Eliot, John Walter Cross gave an intriguing account of Eliot's creative method. "She told me that, in all her best writing, there was a 'not herself' which took possession of her, and that she felt her own personality to be merely the instrument through which this spirit, as it were, was acting," Cross wrote. ”

Rebecca Mead
  • From : My Life in Middlemarch
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