The 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 -- The mystery of otherness: Silas Marner -- Between two worlds: Romola -- A politics of morality: Felix Holt -- The difficult task of knowing another soul': Middlemarch -- The transmutation of the self: Daniel Deronda.