Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher

Author:Angus Fletcher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2021-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

The First Try at a Remedy for Failure

Eighteen years after the unrevolution, George Eliot published her fifth novel: Felix Holt, the Radical. As its title announces, the novel details a radical uprising against the landed English gentry, but at the novel’s heart lies a more personal conflict triggered by a letter. The letter is handed to one of the radicals: a preacher committed to reforming inequities of wealth. And it reveals the preacher’s adopted daughter to be a secret heiress due to inherit the most massive fortune:

Herewith we send you a brief abstract of evidence… the sole and lawful issue of Maurice Christian Bycliffe… the possession of estates to the value, at the lowest, of from five to six thousand per annum.

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