Today came a letter from Barbara full of joy in my success, in the certainty that Adam Bede was mine, though she had not read more than extracts in Reviews, wrote Eliot in her diary on 6 May 1859.
John Chapman's letters to Bodichon, in which he seeks to persuade her to have sex with him on health grounds, are some of the weirdest I've ever read
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