Mr. A. W. HOARE
48-48a. Chilvers Coton churchyard, tomb of Robert ("Adam Bede") and
Christiana Evans.
Mr. A. W. HOARE (48)
Mr. A. HUNT (48a)
49. Chilvers Coton churchyard, tomb of Sarah and Isaac Pearson Evans
("Tom Tulliver" and his wife)
Mr. A. H. HOWELL
50. Chilvers Coton church, extract from parish register
Mr. W. H. STOKES
Recording the marriage of Edward Clark and G. Eliot's sister Chrissy,
"Celia" of _Middlemarch_. The signatures include those of the Rev. John
Gwyther ("Amos Barton"), Robert Evans ("Adam Bede"), Mary Ann Evans (the
novelist), and Isaac P. Evans ("Tom Tulliver"--see No. 49).
51. Arbury Hall
Mr. W. H. MCLAUCHLAN
and Mr. W. H. STOKES
A copy of an older photograph; the view is not the same to-day. This is
the "Cheverel Manor" of _Mr. Gilfil's Love Story_. Arbury is the home of
the Newdegate family. Robert Evans, father of George Eliot, was land
agent for the Newdegate estate. This "castellated house of grey-tinted
stone is described beautifully in the _Love Story_, ch. 2. See also
three books by Lady Newdigate-Newdegate: _The Cheverels of Cheverel
Manor_; _Gossip from a Muniment Room_; and _Cavalier and Puritan_.
52. Arbury Park, George Eliot Memorial
Mr. W. H. STOKES
Erected by Mr. F. A. Newdigate-Newdegate, M.P. Of rough grey stone,
recording the dates and places of her birth and death, and the words
"Lest we forget."
52a. Arbury Park, Caterina's Walk
Mr. W. H. MCLAUCHLAN
and Mr. W. H. STOKES
Ch. 7. of _Mr. Gilfil's Love Story_.
52b. Arbury Park, The Rookery
Mr. W. H. MCLAUCHLAN
and Mr. W. H. STOKES
"The thick shades of the distant Rookery" where Caterina found the body
of Captain Wybrow.
53. Astley church
Mr. W. H. MCLAUCHLAN
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