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POSSESSED INDIVIDUALISM IN GEORGE ELIOT'S DANIEL DERONDA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2006

Sarah Willburn
Sarah Willburn
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Trinity College
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Abstract

[Harris and a female follower] told me about the fays while I was up at Fountain Grove; how at first a little “Two-in-one” would move into a person's breast as soon as they could find entrance, and then clearing a space would begin to build their house; soon they would have a garden and plant fruit-trees; and then little baby fays would be born. The fays have many babies, and so they keep and keep on enlarging the spaces and filling them full of beautiful houses, gardens, and groves, till at last the whole being, to the very extremities of fingers and toes, is all a fairy universe, a world of loveliness. Just think of having lovely little fays bathing in the veins.

—A Sister in the New Life, Santa Rosa, California, June 9, 1881

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WORKS IN PROGRESS
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 271 - 289
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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