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What does Deronda mean?

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Proper noun
  1. an unincorporated community in Wisconsin
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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.

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