![]() In 1869 Harper’s, the New York publishers, issued a new, library edition in which Robert Barnes and William Small were engaged to illustrate Silas Marner, Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede. However, Eliot’s tales were illustrated in the subsequent editions that appeared in her lifetime. ![]() The publisher, George Smith, saw an opportunity to enhance Eliot’s appeal by endowing her historical tale with images, but this was the only occasion when the author was directly involved in the discourse of the 1860s as she struggled to manipulate Leighton’s treatment of her text, a process, as several critics have observed, in which she ultimately shared authorship with the artist. ![]() The exception to this rule is Romola, which was published in 1862–3 in the Cornhill Magazine, with imposing designs by Frederic Leighton. ![]() Appearing in their initial form in Blackwood’s Magazine, a journal made up of dense columns of text, most of her fictions did not have the elaborate cuts that so typically accompanied the work of contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade and W. George Eliot’s writings were mainly issued without illustrations. ![]()
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