Transcriber's Note: This is Volume II of a three volume set: Volume I--Unknown Volume II--Famous Volume III--Sunset A combined index to the entire set is located at the end of Volume III. Narrative content written by J. Cross and material quoted from writers other than George Eliot are interspersed throughout the text. Their content is placed in block quotes. Remaining transcriber's notes are located at the end of the text. * * * * * GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE VOL. II.--FAMOUS "OUR FINEST HOPE IS FINEST MEMORY" [Illustration: Portrait of George Eliot. Engraved by G. J. Stodart.] GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE _as related in her Letters and Journals_ ARRANGED AND EDITED BY HER HUSBAND J. W. CROSS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN THREE VOLUMES.--VOLUME II NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE GEORGE ELIOT'S WORKS. _LIBRARY EDITION._ ADAM BEDE. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1.25. DANIEL DERONDA. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $2.50. ESSAYS and LEAVES FROM A NOTE-BOOK. 12mo, Cloth, $1.25. FELIX HOLT, THE RADICAL. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1.25. MIDDLEMARCH. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $2.50. ROMOLA. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1.25. SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, and SILAS MARNER. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1.25. THE IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH. 12mo, Cloth, $1.25. THE MILL ON THE FLOSS. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1.25. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. HARPER & BROTHERS _will send any of the above volumes by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States or Canada, on receipt of the price. For other editions of George Eliot's works published by Harper & Brothers see advertisement at end of third volume_. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAPTER VIII. JANUARY, 1858, TO DECEMBER, 1858. Success of "Scenes of Clerical Life"--"Adam Bede" Page 1 CHAPTER IX. JANUARY, 1859, TO MARCH, 1860. "The Mill on the Floss" 58 CHAPTER X. MARCH TO JUNE, 1860. First Journey to Italy 120 CHAPTER XI. JULY, 1860, TO DECEMBER, 1861. "Silas Marner"--"Romola" begun 185 CHAPTER XII. JANUARY, 1862, TO DECEMBER, 1865. "Romola"--"Felix Holt" 238 CHAPTER XIII. JANUARY, 1866, TO DECEMBER, 1866. Tour in Holland and on the Rhine 303 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II. PORTRAIT OF GEORGE ELIOT. Engraved by G. J. Stodart _Frontispiece._ THE PRIORY--DRAWING-ROOM _To face p._ 266 FAC-SIMILE OF GEORGE ELIOT'S HAND-WRITING " 280 GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE. CHAPTER VIII. [Sidenote: Journal, 1858.]