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Rh writer, whose nom de plume was George Eliot, began to attract the attention of American readers. In England, Thackeray had already spoken of her as "a literary star of the first magnitude just risen on the horizon”; but her fame was not assured until after the publication of "Adam Bede,” which she sold to the publishers of Blackwoods Magazine for £300; and, to their credit be it told, when they found that it was for them a successful venture, and likely to remain such, they presented her with £1,500 more, as her share of the proceeds of its sale.

The pseudonym of "George Eliot,” under which she first appeared as a novelist, and the careful assumption of masculinity throughout the pages of "Adam Bede,” while it puzzled and led astray the public as to her identity, did not long deceive as to her sex. The woman’s tender heart and keen sense of injustice made palpable the true woman's nature all through her book. Theodore Parker, writing to Frances