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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine de Staël | After completing this novel GS
wrote, I'd like a really big [writing] table, it seems to me I've got the right to it now. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 19 |
Friends, Associates | Herbert Spencer | He counted Thomas Carlyle
and John Stuart Mill
among his friends. George Eliot
would have liked to make their intellectual friendship an intimate one, but he broke it off. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. |
politics | Herbert Spencer | In Spencer's view, women's inferiority was clearly evolutionary, not cultural. In The Study of Sociology and The Principles of Sociology, he claims that women's biology (or their reproductive role) impairs their intellectual and physical... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Smith began working on There But For The following her father's death in 2010, in a crazy time of mourning, where nothing held still and everything changed. It was written, she says, in a kind... |
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... |
politics | May Sinclair | It was an act of great courage for MS
to make herself so conspicuous. Cicely Hamilton
and Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
led the procession. Members of the WWSL each carried a goose quill and a bannerette... |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Sinclair | The collection also contained homages to George Eliot
and Percy Bysshe Shelley
. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 39-40 |
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... |
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