The relation of Deronda to Gwendolen is of a Christlike nature. |
Her last novel was Daniel Deronda, published in 1876, after which she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey. |
But the best part of Daniel Deronda is the keen analysis of Gwendolen's character, which seems to many critics the peak of George Eliot's achievement. |
By the time of Daniel Deronda, Eliot's sales were falling off, and she faded from public view to some degree. |
Eliot represents the Jew in Daniel Deronda as a dichotomous figure, adapted from conventional stereotypes circulating in her culture. |
In her 1996 life of Eliot, Rosemary Ashton quotes a hitherto unregarded letter of G. H. Lewes's about Daniel Deronda. |