Excerpt from George Eliot Scenes and People in Her NovelsEach wrote of life as it is, and particularly of that with which he was the most familiar. Dickens's favorite theme low In the great city of London, Thackeray's, the higher social stratum. Sir Walter gave us a vivid picture of Scotland such as no one else ever attempted, while George Eliot pre ferred the rural life of the lviidlands of Eng land. Here she was thoroughly at home. The daughter of a prosperous land-agent, whose daily life was not above that of the plain country-folk who were his neighbors, she was, throughout her youth, in daily con tact with farmers and their wives, country parsons and dissenting preachers, village doctors and rural schoolmasters, while now and then her father's business connection with several of the wealthiest estates in Eng land gave her an opportunity to visit the most aristocratic homes of the vicinity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.