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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Lynn Linton | ELL
says, indeed, comparatively little of her own life, but she is an observant, vivid, astute recorder of literary personalities and anecdotes. Her major literary portraits are those of Walter Savage Landor
and George Eliot
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bessie Rayner Parkes | A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | A. S. Byatt | The writers considered (each for a single novel) are Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
, Willa Cather
(for nine of whose works ASB
also wrote Virago
introductions), British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Tytler | Clearly delighted with the opportunity to mix in literary circles, ST
recorded her personal observations of these authors in Men and Women Met by the Way, the final 100-page-long section of her family autobiography... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Zadie Smith | Her subjects include George Eliot
's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston
, Franz Kafka
, Vonnegut
and Salinger
as cult figures, Roland Barthes
and Vladimir Nabokov
(pitted against each other as attacker and booster of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Penelope Fitzgerald | It includes Fitzgerald's comments on works by Jane Austen
, George Eliot
, Margaret Oliphant
, Barbara Pym
, Carol Shields
, and Amy Tan
, as well as on a number of recent literary... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | The 1888 edition features a sonnet written for Shelley
, as well as one written on 29 December 1880 for George Eliot
(a week following her death), entitled The Lost Light. Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Sonnets and Songs (1880). Editors Fife, Cody and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints. 19, 11 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Florence Nightingale | In one of the published articles, she praises George Eliot
's Middlemarch as a novel of genius. Cook, Edward. The Life of Florence Nightingale. Macmillan. 97 |
Travel | Mathilde Blind | Her preface to The Heather on Fire reports another visit, to the Isle of Arran in the summer of 1884. Blind, Mathilde. The Heather on Fire. Walter Scott. 3 |
Travel | Michèle Roberts | After getting married, MR
travelled to Rome with her husband, where since he worked at scholarly research both during the day and in the evenings, Dorothea's marriage to Casaubon [in Eliot
&s Middlemarch], and... |
Travel | Henry James | HJ
travelled in England and Europe. While in England he introduced himself to some of the most important writers of the day, including George Eliot
, George Henry Lewes
, and Charles Darwin
. Tóibín, Colm. “A Man with My Trouble”. London Review of Books, pp. 15-18. 16 Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon. 365 Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood. xix |
Travel | Jessie White Mario | Her recovery from a nervous condition was hampered when Bodichon also fell ill and needed a nurse, causing Jessie to assume that role. It was at this time that she was introduced to George Eliot |
Travel | Edith J. Simcox | Following the death of George Eliot
, EJS
explored the Coventry area, gathering information from Eliot's friends and relations in preparation for a projected biography. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press. 115 |
Travel | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
spent a week with George Eliot
, George Henry Lewes
, and Barbara Bodichon
at an old rectory at Swanmore in the Isle of Wight, which Bodichon had rented for a Christmas holiday. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, p. vi, 354 pp. 250-1 |
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