George Eliot: A Case of Acromegaly?
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Roland F. Anderson is Professor of English at the University of Alberta. He has published widely on George Eliot and the literature of New Zealand.
Notes
1. George M. Gould, Biographic Clinics, 6 vols. (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son, 1903-9).
2. V. H. Mottram, The Physical Basis of Personality, rev. ed. (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1960), 80.
3. Jerome Thale, The Novels of George Eliot (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959), 5.
4. F. R. B. Atkinson, Acromegaly (London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1932), 1.
5. Leo M. Davidoff, "Studies in Acromegaly," Endocrinology 10 (September-October 1926): 409.
6. Leonard Mark, Acromegaly, a Personal Experience (London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1912), 29.
7. Atkinson, 30.
8. Ibid., 66-67.
9. Manfred Bleuler, "The Psychopathology of Acromegaly," Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 113 (June 1951): 497-98.
10. Atkinson, 65.
11. Mark, 118.
12. Davidoff, 469.
13. The George Eliot Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight, 9 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1954-78), 2:161.
14. Ibid., 2:370.
15. Ibid., 2:67.
16. Ibid., 2:27.
17. Ibid., 2:152.
18. Ibid., 1:70.
19. Gordon S. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968), illustration facing page 72.
20. Ibid., illustration facing page 52.
21. Ibid., illustration facing page 72.
22. George Eliot Letters, 1:147.
23. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography, frontispiece.
24. Ibid., illustration facing page 340.
25. Gordon S. Haight, George Eliot and John Chapman, with Chapman's Diaries (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940), frontispiece.
26. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography, illustration facing page 340.
27. Ibid., illustration facing page 116.
28. Ibid., 583.
29. Ibid., illustration facing page 530.
30. The "life" cited here is George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, arranged and edited by her husband, J. W. Cross, 3 vols. (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1885).
31. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography, 102.
32. Bessie Rayner Belloc, "Dorothea Casaubon and George Eliot," Contemporary Review 65 (February 1894): 213.
33. Lawrence Hanson and Elizabeth Hanson, Marian Evans and George Eliot: A Biography (London: Oxford University Press, 1952), 300.
34. Bleuler, 28.
35. Mark, 4.
36. George Eliot Letters, 1:138, n. 7.
37. Eliza Lynn Linton, My Literary Life (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1899), 44.
38. Haight, George Eliot and John Chapman, 186.
39. Charles Bray, Phases of Opinion and Experience during a Long Life: An Autobiography (London: Longmans, Green, n.d.), 76.
40. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography, 52.
41. Richard L. Schoenwald, "'George Eliot's "Love" Letters': Unpublished Letters from George Eliot to Herbert Spencer," Bulletin of the New York Public Library 79 (Spring 1976): 364.
42. George Eliot Letters, 8:56-57.
43. Ibid., 8:247.
44. George Henry Lewes's journal entry for 28 January 1859, quoted in George Eliot Letters, 1:lxix.
45. George Eliot Utters, 2:331.
46. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography, 147.
47. George Eliot Letters, 8:124.
48. Ibid., 2:178.
49. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography, 163.
50. George Eliot Letters, 1:223, n. 4.
51. Ibid., 5:428.
52. [Eliza Lynn Linton], "George Eliot," Temple Bar 73 (April 1885): 521.
53. George Eliot Letters, 2:363-64.
54. Ibid., 4:58-59.
55. Ibid., 5:256.
56. Ibid., 5:301.
57. Ibid., 7:268.
58. Ibid., 7:269.
59. Ibid., 7:296.
60. Ibid., 7:268; see also 7:269.
61. Ibid., 7:287.
62. Ibid., 7:289.
63. Ibid., 9:308.
64. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, ed. Hester Ritchie (London: John Murray, 1924), 180-81.
65. George Eliot Letters, 7:269.
66. Ibid., 5:168.
