“Theresa's passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel... She found her epos in the reform of a religious orer.”
— George Eliot 1819 – 1880 CE
(Mary Anne Evans)
Pioneering literary outsider
from Middlemarch
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