It's the birthday of novelist George Eliot, born Mary Anne Evans in Warwickshire, England (1819). Her first novel, "Adam Bede", published in 1859, was a huge, surprising success. She said: "I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
TWA for Tuesday, November 22, 2011
It's the birthday of novelist George Eliot, born Mary Anne Evans in Warwickshire, England (1819). Her first novel, "Adam Bede", published in 1859, was a huge, surprising success. She said: "I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."