Mudcat Café message #3841807

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Thread #161596 Message #3841807
Posted By: Bob the Postman
26-Feb-17 - 07:51 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Winds Blew Across the Wild Moor
Subject: RE: Origins: WINDS BLEW ACROSS THE WILD MOOR

I always thought that the guy who wrote "Mary of the Wild Moor" had been reading "Silas Marner", which wasn't published until 1861. But maybe George Eliot was familiar with the broadside?