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
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Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | The anonymous Concluding Remarks supplied by Frederick Greenwood
, editor of the Cornhill, set the tone for responses. He ranked the three final novels by EG
's delicate strong hand Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge. 458 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | A reader at Curtis Brown
praised DW
's very shrewd and natural gift of depicting her middle-class characters, while Lord Gorell
at John Murray
wrote: Much her best work and the former was good. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 23 |
Literary responses | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Bound in with the Bodleian
's copy of ?1795 is a fair scribal copy of Verses addressed to the Duchess of Devonshire upon reading her poem written in Switzerland, in 23 stanzas by W. Drummond |
Literary responses | Agnes Maule Machar | Responses to this novel were mixed. Poet William Wilfred Campbell
thought it a watered-down version of George Eliot
's Felix Holt, but The Week called Machar our most gifted authoress. Gerson, Carole, and Agnes Maule Machar. “Introduction”. Roland Graeme, Knight, Tecumseh Press, p. vii - xxiv. xix |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Jessie White Mario | George Eliot
wrote to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
regarding JWM
's writing and her convalescence from a nervous condition, which she thought called for absolute rest. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 142n3 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edith J. Simcox | EJS
began work on what was then titled Vignettes in March 1880, shortly before George Eliot
's marriage to John Walter Cross
, and she found solace in writing them: I think of her without... |
Occupation | Angela Brazil | AB
remained silent about her brief foray into paid work, as a governess. Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane. 54n |
Occupation | Auguste Comte | AC
's work strongly influenced John Stuart Mill
, George Henry Lewes
, George Eliot
, and especially Harriet Martineau
, who produced an English translation and abridgement of the philosopher's work. AC
was concerned... |
Occupation | Marion Moss | One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton
(1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and George Eliot
. She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies... |
Occupation | Inez Bensusan | IB
's postwar career has received almost no attention. She continued to act during and after the war. Her acting credentials include two silent films directed by Maurice Elvey
, The Grit of a Jew... |
Occupation | Eva Figes | EF
had a long stint as co-editor of this series, which includes works on Margaret Atwood
, Jane Austen
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Frances Burney
, Willa Cather
, Colette
,... |
Occupation | Charles Darwin | Early in his career, CD
received praise for his work as a geologist, but as a naturalist he achieved fame—after he had undertaken a scientific expedition to South America and especially the Galapagos Islands—for... |
Occupation | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | His attention to questions of power and representation helped spawn poststructuralist theory. His unregenerate misogyny—expressed in contempt for little bluestockings Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin. 79 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin. 80 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | In 1876 ESP
delivered four lectures on George Eliotbefore the College of Boston University
, the new, and so far successful co-educational experiment, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 6: 318n6 |
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