Author: Lisbeth Gooch Seguin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-20

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780483466807

Excerpt from Scenes and Characters From the Works of George Eliot: A Series of Illustrations by Eminent Artists Shepperton church' With these two words George Eliot begins her first work of fiction The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton, and to Shepperton, therefore, we think should be assigned a special place of honour. It is not a purely imaginary sketch, but, like so many of George Eliot's best descriptions, is a reminiscence of her early days. Indeed, it was to this very church that, in the year 1819, one Mr. Robert Evans, of Ashery Farm, took his seven days' old infant to be baptized in the homely name of Mary Anne. The church may still be found at Chilvers Coton, a village near her early home, where the incumbent used to preach sermons shrewdly compounded of High Church doctrines and Low Church Evangelicanism, and where the little flight of steps with a wooden rail runs up the outer wall and leads to the school children's gallery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.