leech-gatherers

Updated: May 23, 2025

In her last phase, she reminds us rather of the authors of Far from the Madding Crowd and The Mill on the Floss, and of Wordsworth, once, too, a torch of revolution, turning to his Michaels and his leech-gatherers and his Peter Bells.

Gustave Flaubert - The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters