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NOVELISTS > novelist > George Eliot
[T]here is one...
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[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle. . .
Source: Adam Bede, bk. 1, ch. 7 (1859), describing the beauty of Hetty Sorrel.
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880), English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., Silas Marner, 1861.