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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><PRE style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT face=Calibri>“Small Talk About Meredith”, “The Essays”, Vol. III (1988), u</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT face=Calibri>nidentified quotation, p. 7 (& p. 9, n.11):</FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT face=Calibri> </FONT></SPAN></PRE>
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Meredith was told that George Eliot did not take her characters from life, he
replied emphatically, ‘</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: ; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oh,
I do; but’ he added, ‘never till I know them by heart." </SPAN></P><PRE style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT face=Calibri> </FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT face=Calibri>It is from: “GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS: THE ANNALS OF AN ARTIST'S LIFE”, by M. S. WATTS (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912), Vol. II, p. 232:</FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT face=Calibri> </FONT></SPAN></PRE>
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style="COLOR: ; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">“Talking
of Mrs. Leslie Stephen—for whom they had an equally great admiration—Mr.
Meredith said, ‘I want to make a portrait of her when I get her more by heart.’
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Signor [i.e. Watts] mentioned that
‘George Eliot’ had said that she did not draw from life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>‘Oh, I do!’ Mr. Meredith answered
emphatically, ‘but never till I know them by heart.’”</SPAN></P>
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