Satire in the Victorian novel

by Frances Theresa Russell

[431] Ibid., 271.

[432] Silas Marner, 26–27. In the same narrative the author uses the misfortunes of Godfrey to illustrate the truth that “Favorable Chance is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. * * * The evil principle deprecated in that religion, is the orderly sequence by which the seed brings forth a crop after its kind.” 91.

[433] Felix Holt, I, 6.

[434] Daniel Deronda, I, 395.

[435] Middlemarch, III, 288.

[436] Ibid., 329.

[437] Burton, Masters of the English Novel, 290.

[438] Essay on Comedy, 21.

[439] Prelude to The Egoist.

[440] Mary Barton, 6.