Show HOW NOW ROMOLA WAS WRITTEN George Georgo Eliot's Immortal the Result of an Inspiration and Much R r Hard W Werk rk The scene of ot tomota Is tho the Flornce Floronce Florence Flor Flor- once ence nce of ot the fifteenth century and the plan of ot It came to Ge George rge Eliot In the course of ot an Italian Journey one of ot those journeys that seem to divide ones one's life lICe In halt half so many many- new ideas do they suggest so many now sources of ot Interest do they open to the mind Having flaying fixed on her scheme she returned returned returned re re- re- re turned to Florence Florene visiting the old streets rummaging ancient books seeking to impregnate herself with the of the time venerable city But she was as still far from her goal When on her return home she at last set to work she saw Its Us difficulties rising before her Would not her genius desert de- de eert sert her wh when n she left the familiar scenes of ot rustic life lite in the England of ot today for Of foreign countries and past Z ages S She despaired more than once gave up her task then took It up lI again aln plunged conscientiously as fiS she shedid shedid did everything ug into historical studies and brought forth In sorrow a kind of ot moral tragedy which wIlch even the reader render cannot behold without emotion emotion-Ed- emotion Edmond Ed- Ed mond r. r |