George Eliot Quote

Beginnings are always troublesome…Even Macaulay's few pages of introduction to his 'Introduction' in the English History are the worst bit of writing in the book.


letter to Sara Hennell, 15 August 1859, in G. S. Haight (ed.) The George Eliot Letters vol. 3 (1954)


Beginnings are always troublesome…Even Macaulay's few pages of introduction to his 'Introduction' in the English History are the worst bit of...

Beginnings are always troublesome…Even Macaulay's few pages of introduction to his 'Introduction' in the English History are the worst bit of...

Beginnings are always troublesome…Even Macaulay's few pages of introduction to his 'Introduction' in the English History are the worst bit of...

Beginnings are always troublesome…Even Macaulay's few pages of introduction to his 'Introduction' in the English History are the worst bit of...