Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob

`She had believed that my wild poet''s passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.'' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood''s Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology and experiments in revification it is Eliot''s anatomy of her own ...