Show HOW ROMOLA ROM OLA WAS WRITTEN george eliot immortal the result of an inspiration and much hard wark the scene of A ornola ts Is the florence of the fifteenth century and the le plan of it came to george eliot in the course of an italian journey one of those journeys that seem to divide ones life in halt so many new ide ideas as i do they suggest so many new soul sources of interest do they open to tile the mind having fixed on her scheme she r returned to florence visiting the old streets tt rummaging ancient books seeking to impregnate herself with 0 the a spirit of the venerable city but she was waa still far from her goal when on oil her return home she at last set get tb t work she saw its difficulties rising before her would not her genius desert her when she left the familiar scenes of rustic life in the england of today foe foreign countries and past aces she despaired more than once gave up her task then took it up again plunged conscientiously BS as she did everything into historical studies and brought forth in sorrow a kind of moral tragedy nelch even tile the reader cannot behold without emotion edmond scherer |