Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
George Eliot
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Standard Name: Eliot, George
Birth Name: Mary Anne Evans
Nickname: Polly
Nickname: Pollian
Self-constructed Name: Mary Ann Evans
Self-constructed Name: Marian Evans
Self-constructed Name: Marian Evans Lewes
Pseudonym: George Eliot
Pseudonym: Felix Holt
Married Name: Mary Anne Cross
GE
, one of the major novelists of the nineteenth century and a leading practitioner of fictional realism, was a professional woman of letters who also worked as an editor and journalist, and left a substantial body of essays, reviews, translations on controversial topics, and poetry.
By the time LC
's little book on George Eliot
appeared in late 1951, her best-known novels were reckoned to be this one, National Provincial, 1938, and Three Lives.
Reception
Margaret Oliphant
Emma Marshall
, another contributor, thought MO
's piece admirable,
Corelli took issue with the vicious reception Ouida had received, arguing that critics had read Ouida's novels in a spirit of fault-finding rather than giving the author . . . the fair chance of...
Reception
Margaret Fuller
The memoir of MF
's life which appeared (edited by Emerson
and others) the year after her death aroused interest from such people as George Eliot
and Henry Crabb Robinson
. Robinson observed that no...
Reception
Georgiana Craik
In a letter to GC
's father
dated 11 December 1862, George Eliot
wrote that she had read one of GC
's stories for children, So-Fat and Mew-Mew. She described it as a little...
Reception
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Bodichon
, who left much of the journal's management to BRP
after moving abroad, felt that Parkes had a wildly exaggerated sense of the importance of her work.
Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38.
EJS
dedicated a personal copy of Natural Law to George Eliot
and was extremely interested in her mentor's view of the work. Eliot reportedly offered moderate praise for the text—but given Simcox's admission that out...
Publishing
Caroline Clive
After she became established as a novelist, CC
was approached by the editors of the new Once a Week in April 1859 with a request to write a serial for them: she was their first...
Publishing
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Further early short fiction by MEB
appeared in The Welcome Guest, a John Maxwell
publication that sold for twopence and aimed at the educated working classes. My Daughters, which appeared on 20 October...
Publishing
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray
's first novel, the anonymous The Story of Elizabeth, was serialized in the Cornhill Magazine alongside George Eliot
's Romola.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
Schwartz-McKinzie, Esther, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Introduction”. The Story of Elizabeth; and, Old Kensington, Thoemmes Press, p. iii - xxxii.
xix
Publishing
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
In later years, ESP
published essays on George Eliot
, whom she greatly admired, for Harper's Weekly (14 February 1885), The Independent (30 April 1885), and Harper's New Monthly Magazine (March 1882).
Publishing
Emily Gerard
Dorothea thought up the plot for this book while she was supposed to be saying her morning prayers at her bedside. The sisters drafted it at a length sufficient to fill four volumes. They had...
Publishing
Edith J. Simcox
EJS
reviewed George Eliot
's Middlemarch for The Academy, again using her pseudonym H. Lawrenny.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
190
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press.
84
Publishing
Viola Meynell
Certain that the small religious firm Herbert and Daniel
would not want this work, VM
approached Martin Secker
, newly established in 1909, who agreed to publish it even before reading it, on grounds of...
