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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 Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith J. Simcox | Despite its working title, Autobiography of a Shirtmaker, EJS
wrote that this record was not the autobiography of a shirtmaker but [of] a love. Simcox, Edith J. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot. Editors Fulmer, Constance M. and Margaret E. Barfield, Garland. 32 |
| 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 | 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 | 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, Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Notes on Men, Women, and Books. Ward and Downey. 112 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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... |
| Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | LC
wrote for the British Council
a little book on George Eliot
as one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News, also known as the Writers and Their Work series. British Book News. British Council. (1951): 673 |
| Textual Production | Sophie Veitch | For five years she continued to publish articles, mainly reviews of fiction, for The Scottish Review. Her Echoes of the Eighteenth Century appeared in January 1885, George Eliot in April 1885, Current Fiction in... |
| Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | ML
went on to write several literary biographies: Jane Austen
and Her World (1969), and George Eliot
and Her World (1973), as well as her late biography of Kipling The work on Austen includes 137... |
| Textual Production | Olivia Manning | After her return to England she sometimes wrote for the BBC
(with which her husband was now a producer), providing scripts for the long-running serial Mrs. Dale's Diary, one number in the series A... |
Timeline
By December 1855: George Meredith published his first work...
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By December 1855
George Meredith
published his first work of fiction, The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment.
December 1855: Barbara Leigh Smith, later Bodichon, founded...
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December 1855
Barbara Leigh Smith
, later Bodichon, founded the Married Women's Property Committee
(sometimes called the Women's Committee) to draw up a petition for a married women's property bill.
14 March 1856: A petition for Reform of the Married Women's...
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14 March 1856
A petitionfor Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee
and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
By 2 August 1856: Jane Margaret Strickland published a novel,...
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By 2 August 1856
Jane Margaret Strickland
published a novel, Adonijah, a tale of the Jewish Dispersion; it was shortly attacked by George Eliot
in Silly Novels by Lady Novelists as one of the deplorable types of fiction...
1858: Rachel Felix, the celebrated tragic actress,...
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1858
Rachel Felix
, the celebrated tragic actress, died of pulmonary consumption.
February 1858: Bessie Rayner Parkes described to George...
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February 1858
Bessie Rayner Parkes
described to George Eliot
, in a letter, the limited company established by the Langham Place group to support The English Woman's Journal.
1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...
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1861
A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...
By 25 October 1862: Victor Hugo completed the publication in...
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By 25 October 1862
Victor Hugo
completed the publication in successive parts of his novelLes Misérables.
October 1864: The Working Women's College opened in Queen...
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October 1864
The Working Women's College
opened in Queen Street, London.
7 February 1865: The first issue appeared of George Smith's...
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7 February 1865
The first issue appeared of George Smith
's innovative evening newspaper, The Pall Mall Gazette.
1871-1872: A civil trial against the Tichborne estate...
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1871-1872
A civil trial against the Tichborne estate trustees was brought to court and was eventually lost by the Tichborne Claimant who alleged that he was heir to the Tichborne estate in Hampshire.
January 1873: Jane Elizabeth Senior was appointed as a...
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January 1873
Jane Elizabeth Senior
was appointed as a (temporary) government inspector of pauper schools and workhouses: the first woman to hold this office.
July 1875: Hercegovina (at this date part of Bosnia),...
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July 1875
Hercegovina (at this date part of Bosnia), rebelled against rule by Turkey; in 1876 Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro also rose.
October 1877: Charles Kegan Paul arranged to purchase the...
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October 1877
Charles Kegan Paul
arranged to purchase the publishing firm of his employer H. S. King
to form Kegan Paul and Co.
1878: The first telephone company in the UK began...
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1878
The first telephone company in the UK began operations, at Chislehurst, Kent; it enabled private communication by phone between two points only.
Texts
Strauss, David Friedrich. The Life of Jesus. Translator Eliot, George, Chapman Brothers, 1846.
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. W. Blackwood, 1860.
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Clarendon, 1980.
Eliot, George, and W. B. Rands. The Poems of George Eliot. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1884.
Eliot, George. The Spanish Gypsy. W. Blackwood, 1868.