George Eliot in Weimar

Robert Evans, father of Mary Ann, the future George Eliot, himself  possessed of brains that had enabled him to rise above his circumstances...

It was between three and four o’clock on a fine morning in August, that after a ten hours’ journey from Frankfort, I awoke a...

… after a little difficulty we got some tolerable beds at the Erbprinz and slept away our fatigue by 9 o’clock. – from George Eliot’s Journ...

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 ...

Goethe’s house is much more important looking, but to English eyes far from being the palatial residence which some German writers...