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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Mary Elizabeth Haldane was Naomi Mitchison's paternal grandmother
('Granniema'). Like her granddaughter, she lived to be a
centenarian, raised a large family, exhibited varied talents and
died beloved by a wide range of family, friends and admirers. Her
children included her son Richard, who was Secretary of State for
War, and then Lord Chancellor, Mitchison's father, a great
scientist whose work saved many lives, and the author/editor of
this slim volume, originally compiled really for family and
friends, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, an outstanding woman who
became Scotland's first woman Justice of the Peace. 'Granniema' had
five step children and six of her own. Despite a sometimes painful
religious upbringing, she was to achieve something near sainthood:
a devout believer herself, she had a large-hearted tolerance, and
encouraged liberty of thought. No one accuses her of narrowness.
Born some half a century too early to achieve fame in the wider
world, she nevertheless won the hearts of everyone she knew. She
loved painting but was not trained. She was widowed, after a very
happy marriage, for forty-eight years, for the last twelve of which
she was an invalid. She was first mistress of Cloan, and a great
nineteenth-century heroine.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
1927. Haldane was a Scottish social-welfare worker and author who
wrote several biographies and translated a number of philosophical
works. In this volume she chronicles the life of George Eliot,
pseudonym of novelist, translator, and religious writer Mary Ann
Evans. Contents: George Eliot's Youth; Young Womanhood; Difficult
Years; The New Life; George Eliot as a Novel Writer: Her First
Novels; An Autobiographical Novel-The Mill on the Floss; An Idyll
and a History; A Great Religious Novel: Romola; George Eliot as a
Poet; George Eliot as a Political Novelist: Felix Holt; A Middle
Class Novel: Middlemarch; The Last Novel: Daniel Deronda; The Last
Years; and George Eliot and Her Time.
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