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...has been quite different, I
enter into the painfulness of your struggle. I can imagine the hardship of
an enforced renunciation."
"No," said the Princess, shaking her head and folding her arms with an air
of decision. "You are not a woman. You may try--but you can never imagine
what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the
slavery of being a girl. To have a pattern cut out--'this is the Jewish
woman; this is what you must be; this is what you are wanted for;
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt. 
' That was what my father wanted. He wished I had
been a son; he cared for me as a make-shift link. His heart was set on his
Judaism. He hated that Jewish women should be thought of by the Christian
world as a sort of ware to make public singers and actresses of. As if we
were not the more enviable for that! That is a chance of escaping from
bondage."
"Was my grandfather a learned man?" said Deronda, eager to know
particulars that he feared his mother might not think of.
She answered...
Eliot, George
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George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880), who was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity.
She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as merely a writer of romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version
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