Exchange among Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Mary Wollstonecraft
GE: The role of the writer in our time is much different than it will be in the future, I think. As the wheels of industry churn faster and faster, they will produce more and more distractions from the realities of society, and those in power will keep the public from noticing the stratagems that they use to hold onto that power, because of the sheer number of distractions available. EB: Don’t you think that what we put together has a spiritual component to it? After all, while writing does allow the expression of the noble and the ...
