Mass immigration began in the 1870s (shortly before the appearance of Eliot's novel), and by 1914 there were 300,000 Jews in Britain. In 1850 there were approximately 20,000 Jews in London and a smaller number in the provinces ninety per cent were native-born and the remainder had immigrated from the continent. It's a religious romance, in which the handsome hero brings deepened morality to the heroine! Some reviewers also objected to the Latinate and evaluative diction as too ponderous. One, Francillon, suggested that Deronda was her least realistic book, a wonderfully plotted romance (Daniel's rescue of Mirah suggests Caponsacchi's of Pompilia in Browning's The Ring and the Book). They also felt the character of Deronda was a bit ponderous-more designed to be admirable than admirable. Reviewers from time to time criticized Eliot for an excess of description over enactment.
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