Making of a novelist -- My first bit of art: scenes of clerical life -- Self-regulation and the limits of subjectivity: Adam Bede -- A widening psychology: The mill on the floss -- Mystery of otherness: Silas Marner -- Between two worlds: Romola -- A politics of morality: Felix Holt -- Difficult task of knowing another soul': Middlemarch -- Transmutation of the self: Daniel Deronda.