Harold Transome strikes the hated lawyer Jermyn for speaking of his mother, only to be told that the man is his real father. From Felix Holt the Radical novel set in the period of the Reform Act (1832) by George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann, or Marian, Evans), first published London, 1866. Illustration by John Jellicoe (active1865-1903) for an edition of 1880. Engraving.