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.
Portrait of George Eliot, seated, after the 1881 painting of Francois Albert Durade.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Bowen
She writes admiringly of Jane Austen , but far less so of George Eliot , whom she regards as over-intellectual.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
81-2
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
It contains many previously published reviews and essays, including her thoughts on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers. In a review, JFLW calls Harriet Martineauone of the cleverest female intellects of the age,
Wilde, Jane Francesca, Lady. Notes on Men, Women, and Books. Ward and Downey, 1891.
112
but finds...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anthony Trollope
The critical opinions he voices here are often cited. Chapter 13, entitled On English Novelists of the Present Day, gives first place to Thackeray and second to George Eliot . On her he voices...
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, 1998.
19, 11
EJP
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Lynn Linton
The book makes disparaging allusion to George Eliot and to the dislikable Robert Brabant .
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
49
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vernon Lee
In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen , Maria Edgeworth ,...
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 Jane Hume Clapperton
JHC also writes approvingly of free love, particularly George Eliot 's decision to join in domestic partnership with George Henry Lewes . Eliot's decision, she says, was clearly motivated by Lewes's legal inability to obtain...
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.
Iris Murdoch , and Toni Morrison .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Webster
She omits reviews from this collection, but provides readers with an opportunity to consider literary topics. The Translation of Poetry argues that because [i]n poetry the form of the thought is part of the thought...
Travel Fredrika Bremer
Again her impressions were distinctly mixed. She enjoyed the tail-end of the Great Exhibition; she met George Eliot , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Charles Kingsley , as well as the William HowittHowitts ; but she was...
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, 1886.
3
She also visited Warwickshire in the course of research for writing the life of...
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, 3 Jan. 2008, pp. 15-18.
16
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995.
365
Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood, 1989.
xix
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 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, 1961.
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