Kaufstraße

Our lodgings at Weimar were amusing. The sitting room was something like a room cut in a wall, (…) long and narrow, with four windows along one side of it.
– from George Eliot, Recollections of Weimar


 Audio Comment by and with Bob Muscutt

Memorial Plaque at Kaufstraße

In 2014, GEF member Bob Muscutt, with the support of the George Eliot Fellowship, had a plaque put on the house now occupying the site of their lodging in Kaufstraße. It says:

This is the site of the house where

George Henry Lewes (1817-1878), 

first biographer of Goethe, and author 

George Eliot (1819-1880) 

stayed in the year of 1854. 

They promoted Weimar 

and German culture in Great Britain.

Our landlady Frau Münderloh was a Weimarian of the Weimarians  (…) The landlady’s husband was called the »süsser Münderloh« (sweet Münderloh) by way of distinction from a brother of his who was the reverse of sweet. This Münderloh who was not sweet – but who nevertheless dealt in sweets – in other words was a confectioner, was so utter a rogue that any transaction with him was dreaded almost as if he had been the devil himself, and so clever a rogue that he always managed to keep on the windy side of the law.

– from George Eliot, Recollections of Weimar


Extended reading from George Eliot, Recollections of Weimar, by and with Trish Osmond.

Audio comment by and with Bob Musctutt and reading from letter by Robert Scott Tait to George Combe by and with Phil New.