Abstract
In Romola, George Eliot recurs to the problem of marital discord in “Janet’s Repentance,” as she will do again in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. But, as the protagonist is a cultivated woman, one of the author’s main concerns is also the denigration a highly intelligent woman suffers. The story takes place in Florence between April 9, 1492 and May 23, 1498, but we feel it takes place in the mid-Victorian era, patriarchal law in the Renaissance having descended to the Victorian era.1
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© 2015 June Szirotny
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Szirotny, J.S. (2015). Romola. In: George Eliot’s Feminism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137406156_6
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