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Although George Eliot’s first three stories reveal varying strengths and weaknesses, they undoubtedly mark successive stages of sustained progress in the evolution of a novelist. They also indicate that the transition to fiction was not always easy or felicitous for an essayist with pronounced convictions on life and literature.
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© 1981 F.B. Pinion
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Pinion, F.B. (1981). First Phase of Fiction. In: A George Eliot Companion. Macmillan Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04256-2_5
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