Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY

20. Bust of George Whitfield, at one time in Mr. Franklin's house

Mr. A. W. HOARE

"A black bust with a coloured face, which for some reason or other
was covered with green gauze." "That," said Mr. Lyon, "is the
eminent George Whitfield . . . Providence ordained that the good man
should squint; and my daughter has not yet learned to bear with this
infirmity."--_Felix Holt_, ch. v.

21. Coventry, Nantglyn, Warwick Row

Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY

The Misses Franklin's school was at this address. George Eliot left this
school in 1835.

George Eliot's Coventry Home and Circle.

In March, 1841, Robert Evans and his daughter came to live in the
Foleshill Road, until her father died in 1849. The house is known as
Bird Grove, and has been much altered.

22. Coventry, Bird Grove

Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY

22a. Coventry, gates of Bird Grove

Mr. J. BRADBURY

23. Coventry, Bird Grove, window of George Eliot's study over entrance

Mr. A. W. HOARE

24-25. Coventry, Bird Grove, study and bedroom

Mr. A. W. HOARE (24)
Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY (25)

26. Coventry, Bird Grove, room used by G. Eliot as drawing room

Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY

27. Coventry, Bird Grove, study

Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY

28. Coventry, Bird Grove, interior

Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY

29. Coventry, "Rosehill"

Mr. L. P. WILSON

George Eliot first visited "Rosehill," the home of the Brays, on November
2nd, 1841. There is an interesting account of this visit in Bray's
_Autobiography_, p. 76. The Brays and the Hennells exerted an important
influence on her life.

30. Coventry, Ivy Cottage,

Mr. L. P. WILSON

The home of the Hennell family; adjoins "Rosehill."

Scenes of Clerical Life.

Nuneaton is the Milby of