I am Richard Feverel, son of Mr. Harding, the miller, at Lillstock, in Shropshire. I

I am Richard Feverel, son of Mr. Harding, the miller, at Lillstock, in Shropshire. I was born in 1810, and educated at Christ’s Hospital, London, from whence I was removed to Oxford, and became a student at St. Omer’s. In 1843, I published “Feverel,” a novel, which was followed by “The Shaving of Shagpat,” and “The History of Felix Holt, the Radical.” In 1859, appeared “The Mill on the Floss,” and I am now engaged upon a new work of fiction, to be entitled “Silas Marner.” George Eliot, in whose company I first appeared as a writer of fiction, has adopted me as a character in her “Mill on the