“oppressed by ennui and by that dissatisfaction which in women's minds is continually turning into a trivial jealousy, referring to no real claims, springs from no deeper passions than the vague exactingness of egoism, and yet capable of impelling action as well as speech.”
— George Eliot 1819 – 1880 CE
(Mary Anne Evans)
Pioneering literary outsider
from Middlemarch
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