Romola

When I asked her name he gave the name of one dear to me which I could not bear to use, so I said: "I will call her Romola, after you."

A Woman Rice Planter 1914

I have come to the end of my space without speaking of "Romola," which, as the most important of George Eliot's works, I had kept in reserve.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

A nurse once gave me a graphic description of her efforts to read "Romola" to a convalescent typhoid patient.

Making Good on Private Duty Harriet Camp Lounsbery

"Romola," and momma bought him an English and Italian washing book that he might keep a record of his _camicie_ and his _fazzoletti_ -- it would be so interesting afterwards, she thought -- while the Senator exerted himself in the way of cheerful conversation, but it was very discouraging.

A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan

Now she sat, reading the introspections of "Romola" till she felt her own soul stretching out -- up and beyond the gas table-lamp glowing there in such lovely serenity through its gold-glass shade; felt it aching to express something, she knew not what.

Missy Dana Gatlin

Even in "Romola" she consecrates page after page to the conversation of the Florentine populace.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

"Romola" as a moral argument and its value as a work of art, is the fact that in each character it seems to me essentially prosaic.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

A nurse once gave me a graphic description of her efforts to read "Romola" to a convalescent typhoid patient.

Making Good on Private Duty Harriet Camp Lounsbery

Considerable as are our author's qualities as an artist, and largely as they are displayed in "Romola," the book strikes me less as a work of art than as a work of morals.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

A nurse once gave me a graphic description of her efforts to read "Romola" to a convalescent typhoid patient.

Making Good on Private Duty Harriet Camp Lounsbery