Scenes of Clerical Life

by George Eliot · 1858

Three tender, ironic tales of English clergymen and their parishioners. Eliot's first fiction, where her genius first appeared.

Books mentioned in Scenes of Clerical Life (10)

• Sermons by John Tillotson: “putting a volume of Tillotson's Sermons into her hands--as appropriate reading”
• A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke: “Hannah More's ‘Sacred Dramas,’ Falconer's ‘Shipwreck,’ Mason ‘On Self-Knowledge,’ ‘Rasselas,’ and Burke ‘On the Sublime and Beautiful,’ which were the chief ornaments of the bookcase”
• The Works of Virgil by Virgil: “the neatly-bound copies of Dryden's ‘Virgil,’ Hannah More's ‘Sacred Dramas,’”
• Sacred Dramas by Hannah More: “the neatly-bound copies of Dryden's 'Virgil,' Hannah More's 'Sacred Dramas,' Falconer's 'Shipwreck,'”
• Life of Legh Richmond: “'That's a book I'm very fond of--the “Life of Legh Richmond,”' said Mrs. Linnet.”
• The Force of Truth by Thomas Scott: “'Miss Pratt,' said Rebecca, 'will you please give me Scott's “Force of Truth?” There--that small book lying against the “Life of Legh Richmond.”'”
• Father Clement by Grace Kennedy: “This story of 'Father Clement' is a library in itself on the errors of Romanism.”
• Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn by John Sargent: “Janet had dipped into the ‘Life of Henry Martyn,’ which Mrs. Pettifer had from the Paddiford Lending Library”
• Memoirs of Felix Neff, Pastor of the High Alps by William Stephen Gilly: “The silent handsome girl of two-and-twenty, who is covering the 'Memoirs of Felix Neff,' is Miss Eliza Pratt”
• Memoir of Bishop Jebb: “Mr. Ely threw himself with a sense of relief into his easiest chair, set his feet on the hobs, and in this attitude of bachelor enjoyment began to read Bishop Jebb's Memoirs.”