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'The Sensitive Author': George Eliot

George Eliot has often been referred to as 'sensitive' and many of her characters suffer or benefit from sensitiveness. Yet, in comparison with terms such as sensibility and sympathy, the word sensitive has received little critical attention. This essay traces the presence of sensitiveness in Eliot's writings, from Scenes of Clerical Life to The Impressions of Theophrastus Such, and explores the difficulty, for both her characters and readers, of reconciling feeling for others with a sense of self.