Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her depiction of Ladislaw--that she fell in love with her own creation in a way that shows a lack of artistic control and is even unseemly, like a hoary movie director whose lens lingers too long on the young flesh of a favored actress. Lord David Cecil calls Ladislaw 'a schoolgirl's dream, and a vulgar one at that,' while Leslie Stephen complained 'Ladislaw is almost obtrusively a favorite with his creator,' and depreciated him as 'an amiable Bohemian.
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REBECCA ROMIJN I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a s... REBECCA PIDGEON Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are ge... REBECCA MACKINNON I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky ... REBECCA WELLS It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abet... REBECCA MACKINNON It was impossible for Hillary Clinton to have chosen a path to the White House that bypassed the loa... REBECCA TRAISTER Sometimes Geraldine feels like she can drive forever. Maybe that’s partially why she took a job at... REBECCA MCNUTT 'Living Single' was on in early 1990s - the show about Queen Latifah living with a bunch of ... REBECCA TRAISTER Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a s... REBECCA SOLNIT Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. REBECCA JOHNSON There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them ... REBECCA WEST The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the exp... REBECCA BEARD The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the expe... REBECCA BEARD In England and America, a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable th... REBECCA WEST An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. REBECCA WEST