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.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | George Sand | Many other British writers were strongly influenced by GS
: Geraldine Jewsbury
, Matilda Hays
, Anne Ogle
, Eliza Lynn Linton
, Mathilde Blind
, and, most notably, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
and George Eliot |
Literary responses | Olive Schreiner | The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent
, who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly... |
Literary Setting | Olive Schreiner | Cherry Clayton
believes the novel's fictional English setting, Greenwood, was influenced by the English landscapes in the works of Hardy
, George Eliot
, and the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë
. Schreiner herself had not yet been to... |
Literary responses | Caroline Scott | This was one of the white neck-cloth Eliot, George. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, pp. 277-98. 293 Eliot, George. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, pp. 277-98. 279 |
Reception | Sir Walter Scott | Blackwood contrasted Scott's stormy relations with his publishers, with his own personal friendships with his authors, among them George Eliot
. |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | Sharp was an eager reader of Atalanta. She took full advantage of the service it offered of assessing essays on literary figures submitted for its competitions, sending in, among others, an essay on George Eliot |
Textual Production | Edith J. Simcox | EJS
began writing what she calls her autobiography although its form is that of a secret diary, intending it as a record of her constancy to George Eliot
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Edith J. Simcox | EJS
's autobiography was published for the first time, as A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot
: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker, edited by Constance M. Fulmer
and Margaret E. Barfield
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Simcox, Edith J. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot. Editors Fulmer, Constance M. and Margaret E. Barfield, Garland. |
politics | Edith J. Simcox | On 12 December 1877 EJS
remarked in her autobiography that a Council was appointed to which I was nominated, then Mrs Besant
, then Mrs Harriet Law
, and Mr Bradlaugh
in between. I had... |
Friends, Associates | Edith J. Simcox | Elma Stuart
, who had also been an intimate friend of George Eliot
, became a close friend of EJS
. In March 1881 they spent a week together at Malvern, where they exchanged... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith J. Simcox | EJS
, while passionate in her desire for George Eliot
, would not allow the same kind of devotion to be bestowed upon herself. In 1881 one of her acquaintances (known to posterity only as... |
Friends, Associates | Edith J. Simcox | Her connection with George Eliot
and her own political activities brought EJS
into friendly association with a number of key social figures including William Morris
, Eliza Orme
, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
. Fulmer, Constance M. et al. “Preface, Introduction and Editorial Materials”. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot, Garland, pp. xi - xvii, 1. xii Fulmer, Constance M. “A Nineteenth Century ’Womanist’ on Gender Issues: Edith Simcox in her <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Autobiography of a Shirtmaker</span>”;. Nineteenth Century Prose, Vol. 26 , No. 2, pp. 110-26. 115 |
death | Edith J. Simcox | Her ashes were buried with her mother at Aspley Guise, nine miles south of Bedford. The remains of her friend Elma Stuart
lie beside those of George Eliot
, an honour which she... |
Reception | Edith J. Simcox | 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... |
Reception | Edith J. Simcox | Biographer Keith Alexander McKenzie
considers this to be the only one of EJS
's works that retains the power to interest readers, partly because of the style, partly because of the sensitive and often striking... |
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