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Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction. p.1 -- 1. "Vulgar, and below the dignity of literature": part publication in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. p.5 -- 2. Striking situations and serial endings: Eliot's apprenticeship in Scenes of clerical life. p.32 -- 3. "An unfortunate duck can only lay blue eggs": negotiations to serialize Adam Bede and The mill on the floss. p.94 -- 4. The serialization of Romola: "A more surprising thing than pine-apple for the million". p.123 -- 5. A "greater trial of readers' faith and patience": Middlemarch, a bimonthly serial. p.182 -- 6. Daniel Deronda, "No ordinary love story or mechanical web": the tale of two plots. p.211 -- 7. Filling in the blanks: readers respond to the serialization of Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. p.238 -- Conclusion. p.260 -- Appendix 1: Reviewing history of George Eliot's novels. p.265 -- Appendix 2: Romola manuscript and Cornhill pagination. p.284 -- Appendix 3: Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda pagination. p.285 -- Notes. p.287 -- Bibliography. p.327 -- Index. p.337