Perilous Joy: George Eliot and the marriage question

I’ve subscribed to the Point mag before but agree that this article is not a highlight. The quality of prose varies but for a literary and cultural criticism magazine that’s not one of the giants, I think it’s still worth supporting.

A. No, but if it's free I might scan it over.

I believe that phrase was supposed to use the word: tomes.

Translation and speech to text software both can throw that error.

Not catching the misuse in editing could be due to non-native English speaker.

It is a reference to the closing lines of Middlemarch:

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

Not sure I've ever seen "unvisited tombs" before, but I had no trouble with the metaphor. Intuitive, not overused, in other words it works.