Maggie and Lucy

W. St John Harper

c.1900

Photo-etching from a drawing

Source: Eliot, Illustrated Cabinet ed. of the novel, vol. II: frontispiece

Sweet-natured Lucy is the perfect foil to Maggie, who is the very type of the dark-haired young rebel. Maggie pushes her into the mud once as a child, but is fond of her all the same, and will look up at her again with great feeling on their last meeting, in a way that Lucy always remembers.

Related Material

Scanned image and text by Jacqueline Banerjee.

[You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned it, and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]