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> [Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-gardam/only-a-great-genius-like-the-victorian-novelist-elizabeth-gaskell-can/)

[Jane Gardam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-gardam/)

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> [“No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... I doubt if any Victorian novelist has as much to teach the modern novelists as George Eliot.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-pritchett-2/no-victorian-novel-approaches-middlemarch-in-its-width-of-reference/)

[V.S. Pritchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-pritchett-2/)

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