Sold "Agatha" to Fields and Osgood for £300 on May 24.
Sonnets on Childhood (5) finished, July 3.
Writing introduction to "Middlemarch," July 19.
Finished 11 sonnets on "Brother and Sister."
Printed for private circulation "Brother and Sister, Sonnets by Marian Lewes." Began "Middlemarch," Aug. 2.
To Weybridge on a visit to the Cross family.
Began "The Legend of Jubal," Oct. 5.
1870 (aged 51) To Berlin and Vienna for two months.
Finished "The Legend of Jubal," Jan. 13, for the May number of Macmillan's Magazine.
To Oxford, Cromer, Harrogate, Whitby.
Began dramatic poem, "Armgart."
To Limpsfield, "our favourite Surrey retreat."
Began story, "Miss Brooke," Dec. 2.
1871 To Ryde, Shottermill, Weybridge. First part of "Middlemarch" published Dec. 1.
1872 Alexander Main's book, "Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings, in prose and verse, selected from the Works of George Eliot," published Jan. 1.
Finished 4th part (2nd volume) of "Middlemarch," Jan. 29.
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