George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (Penguin Classics), edited with an Introduction and Notes by Rosemary Ashton (New York: (Penguin Books, 1994) ("'On my opinion,' said Lydate, 'legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind. People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in sales by a blind Justice. No man can judge what is good evidence on any particular subject, unless he knows that subject well. A lawyer is no better than an old woman at a post-mortem examination. How is he to know the action of a poison? You might as well say that scanning verse will teach you to scan the potato crops.'" Id. at 157.).
Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch (New York: Crown, 2014) (See Joyce Carol Oates, "Deap Reader," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 1/26/2014.).
