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385, 408, 445, 487;
    background for, 9, 11–12, 13, 15, 17, 21, 32, 41, 133, 277–80;
    plot, 281–4;
    publishing of, 277, 287–90;
    success of, 286–90;
    writing of, 273–6
    ‘Affectation and Conceit’, 35
    ‘Agatha’, 391
    ‘Armgart’, 39, 455
    articles for Coventry Herald , 116
    ‘As o’er the fields’ 51
    biological basis of, 242, 246, 318
    ‘Brother Jacob’, 23, 347, 349
    ‘Brother and Sister’ sonnets, 23–4, 26, 272, 391, 429, 443
    ‘The College Breakfast-Party’, 400–401
    Daniel Deronda , 8, 26, 52, 333, 427, 437, 440–46, 448, 452–5;
    background for, 8, 26, 219, 313, 379, 392, 440;
    plot, 448–55;
    publication of, 317;
    writing of, 427, 438, 440–44
    ‘Edward Neville’, 51
    Felix Holt, The Radical , 9, 43, 50, 302, 347, 359, 363, 365, 371–7, 381–50, 408, 409, 412, 413, 451, 487;
    background, 264;
    plot, 371–5;
    success, 376–7
    Feuerbach’s The Essence of Christianity (translation), 6, 184, 192, 205, 208, 224, 225, 236, 255, 256, 261, 328, 339
    ‘How Lisa Loved the King’, 391
    Impressions of Theophrastus Such , 116, 458, 467–9, 486, 487
    The Legend of Jubal, and Other Poems , 391–2, 444
    ‘The Lifted Veil’, 276, 291, 311, 312, 487
    Middlemarch , 32, 344, 351, 385, 434, 440, 442, 445, 448, 452, 459, 468, 484;
    background, 16, 32, 96, 113, 212, 304, 379, 407–9,; plot, 417–25;
    writing of, 391, 392, 395
    The Mill on the Floss , 5, 13, 18, 21, 23, 24, 291, 347, 323–6, 332, 334, 336, 337, 340, 345–6, 360, 373, 375, 377, 385, 408, 459, 487;
    background, 16, 18, 21, 23, 24, 113, 132, 180, 210, 224, 302, 316;
    plot, 316–22;
    publishing of, 229, 295–301;
    success of, 323–5;
    writing of, 311
    novels, first thoughts of, 246
    ‘O May I Join the Choir Invisible’, 315, 366, 443, 482
    ‘On Being Called a Saint’, 34, 418
    Romola , 50, 234, 318, 331, 337, 347, 359, 363, 366, 370, 375–7, 380–81, 383–5, 394,395, 442, 459, 487;
    plot, 343–5;
    writing of, 343–52
    Scenes of Clerical Life , 47, 251–84, 292, 293, 296, 298, 303–4, 307, 308, 319, 324, 346, 425
    Self and Life, 23
    Silas Marner , 9, 11, 31, 328, 337–40, 342, 344, 346, 352, 385, 408, 487;
    background, 337–8
    Spanish Gypsy , 50, 234, 351, 360, 367, 371, 381, 383–5, 391, 395, 422, 459, 487
    Spinoza’s Ethics (translation), 192, 222, 226, 237, 238, 444
    Strauss’s The Life of Jesus (translation), 6, 97–9
    Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings , 395
    Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 83, 107, 136
    Engels, Friedrich, 106
    Evans, Chrissey, see Clarke, Chrissey
    Evans, Christiana (née Pearson) [GE’s mother], 16, 17, 21–3, 26, 29, 58, 130, 279–80,
    death of, 37
    model for Mrs Poyser [ Adam Bede ], 21, 279–80
    Evans, Edith, see Griffiths, Edith
    Evans, Elizabeth (nee Tomlinson) [GE’s aunt], 40, 41–2, 50, 277–8
    model for Dinah Morris, 304
    Evans, Fanny (Frances Lucy) [GE’s half-sister], see Houghton, Fanny
    Evans, Fred [GE’s nephew], model for Fred Vincy [ Middlemarch ], 419
    Evans, George [GE’s grandfather], 12
    Evans, George [GE’s uncle], 12, 13
    Evans, Harriet [GE’s half-sister], 16
    Evans, Harriet (née Poynton) [GE’s father’s first wife], 15–16
    Evans, Isaac P. [GE’s brother], 10,17, 18, 21, 37, 40, 41, 58, 59, 68, 69, 70, 72–3, 74, 92, 106, 114, 119, 182, 295, 300, 301–2, 316, 363, 419, 428, 463, 477, 482
    childhood, 10, 22, 23, 25, 26, 202
    GE’s attachment to, 23–5
    GE’s estrangement from, 13, 27, 36, 38–9, 58–61, 70, 86, 90, 103, 105, 115, 117, 127, 134, 180, 202, 228, 241, 242, 261, 268–72, 362, 429, 430
    model for Tom Tulliver [ The Mill on the Floss ], 180, 272, 320
    religious beliefs of, 38–9
    Evans, Jane [GE’s sister-in-law], 362, 363
    Evans, Robert [GE’s father], 1, 10, 11–21, 27, 29, 31, 37, 43, 44, 58, 61, 62, 68–9, 77, 78, 180, 261, 272, 279, 288, 344, 371, 428
    GE’s care of, 37–8, 39–40, 58–9, 117–21
    GE’s estrangement from, 69–75, 92, 103
    model for Adam Bede [ Adam Bede ], 278
    model for Caleb Garth [ Middlemarch ],