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"I read George Eliot's classic novel Daniel Deronda one rainy week in a rented cottage in a village similar to Pennicote, the small, boring and snobbish village to which Deronda's central female character, Gwendolen Harleth, is exiled (recalled from gambling and parties in the great cities of Europe) after her family loses its fortune.
By that novel's end Gwendolen has endured not only the loss of status, hope and money but rejection by Daniel Deronda and marriage to a mega-rich, aristocratic sadist. She is also guilt-ridden, for when her worse-than-evil husband, falls off his boat into the Mediterranean, she resists saving him….
I drove back to London from that rental cottage, thinking about how unfinished Eliot had left Gwendolen's life." (Read more here)
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