Writer’s Recollections V2

I was already thinking of some reply both to Mr. Gladstone’s article and to the attack on Robert Elsmere in the Quarterly; but it took me longer than I expected, and it was not till March in the following year (1889) that I published The New Reformation, a Dialogue, in the Nineteenth Century. Into that dialogue I was able to throw the reading and the argument which had been of necessity excluded from the novel. Mr. Jowett was nervous about it, and came up on purpose from Oxford to persuade me, if he could, not to write it.