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NOVELISTS > novelist > George Eliot
He was at...
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He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose . . .
Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 15 (1871), said of Lydgate, the new doctor in town.
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880), English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., Silas Marner, 1861.