...Eliot's narrator announces the attempt to "understand ourselves," in Woolf's words, in political context: "This history is chiefly concerned with the private...which has not been determined by a wider public life" (FH 129). The Years likewise concerns a few representative lives formed by historical change — a...

...ambiguous view of the relationship of lawyers to gentlemen. Following Scott, Eliot reminds her readers that "there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life" (Chap. 3). The Transomes are a gentry family of dwindling means. The simpleminded father has for some...

...deal with the individual's connection to the state if only because, as Eliot declares in Feüx Holt, "there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life" (45). In both Eliot and Gissing, and throughout much late-Victorian social realism, something like...

...changes in Treby parish are comparatively public matters, and diis history is chiefly concerned widi die private lot of a few men and women; but there is no...has not been determined by a wider public life, from die time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander widi die wanderings of her clan, because die cow...

...Gaol," pt. 5, st. 1 (1898). Repr. in Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, ed. JB Foreman (1966). Privacy 1 There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. GEORGE ELIOT [MARY ANN (OR MARIAN) EVANS], (1819-1880) British novelist, editor. Felix Holt, The Radical,...

...integrated part of the narrative commentary, as in this typically consequentialist passage from Felix Holt "[T]here is no private life which has not been determined...milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures bare."26 The expansion of the idea of "life" in this passage as it moves from the "private life," denoting...

...of broader public themes, even universal ones. 'There is no private life,' she writes in Felix Holt, 'which has not been determined by a wider public life,...milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her herd, because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures bare.'8 Here, then,...

..."to know the higher pains of a dim political consciousness." 16 A slogan for this novel holds that "there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life," and the work's answer to divisive party politics is that the wider public life of the nation can be...

...narrative comment that is repeated there and in Middlemarch. In Felix Holt, the narrator famously claims: "there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life" (I:3:50). Likewise, in the "Finale" of Middlemarch, the narrator remarks: "For there is no creature...

...political and social conditions which made an epoch in the history of Italy" (R 195); and in Felix Holt, "there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life" (FH 43). But it is notable that Eliot almost always puts the equation thus, in terms of the effects...