28. Coventry, Bird Grove, interior
Mr. S. T. Shipway
29. Coventry, “Rosehill”
Mr. L. P. Wilson
George Eliot first visited “Rosehill,” the home of the Brays, on November 2nd, 1841. There is an interesting account of this visit in Bray’s Autobiography, p. 76. The Brays and the Hennells exerted an important influence on her life.
30. Coventry, Ivy Cottage,
Mr. L. P. Wilson
The home of the Hennell family; adjoins “Rosehill.”
Scenes of Clerical Life.
Nuneaton is the Milby of Janet’s Repentance. There is an amusing description of a Sunday morning service at the church at the beginning of the story.