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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Aestheticism and Decadence"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Work title:
"Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Date: 1871-2, 1874
"A man's mind---what there is of it---has always the advantage of being masculine,---as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,---and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1871-2, 1874
"If it had really occurred to Mr Casaubon to think of Miss Brooke as a suitable wife for him, the reasons that might induce her to accept him were already planted in her mind, and by the evening of the next day the reasons had budded and bloomed."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)