Once Upon a Fairy Tale House by Mary Lyn Ray Workman Publishing Company Middlemarch displays George Eliot's clear-eyed

Middlemarch displays George Eliot's clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge

and her sisters

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like tea sets from long ago - if you've ever seen them

Once Upon a Fairy Tale House by Mary Lyn Ray Workman Publishing Company Middlemarch displays George Eliot's clear-eyedMildred, Harriet, Brenda, and Wilma Moody grew up reading classic fairy tales and inventing their own, wishing they could live in the stories. They imagined storybook houses for themselves and slept there in their dreams every night. As adults, the sisters followed separate career paths until Mildred, an artist, needed a place to paint. Harriet, an architect, sketched plans for a studio that looked like the whimsical abodes from their childhood