1. Henry Auster, Local Habitations: Regionalism in the Early Novels of George Eliot (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970), p. 122.
2. Alison Booth, Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), p. 68.
3. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), p. 140.
4. Q. D. Leavis, ‘Regional Novels’, Scrutiny, vol. 4, 1935–36, p. 440; cited in Auster, Local Habitations, p. 19.
5. Leslie Stephen, George Eliot (London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1902); Virginia Woolf, ‘George Eliot’, The Times Literary Supplement, 20 November 1919; cited in Graham Handley, State of the Art: George Eliot (Bristol: The Bristol Press, 1990), pp. 27–8, p.36; Gillian Beer, Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983), p. 173 — my emphasis.