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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Textual Production | Henry James | Although HJ
is best remembered as a novelist, he was also a prolific and insightful critic of literature and the arts. Over the course of his career he reviewed many novels by British women writers... |
Textual Production | Julia Wedgwood | For the next thirty-five years she published steadily on religious, scientific, and moral concerns. She also produced profiles of other authors such as George Eliot
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
. A collection of this work... |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
's Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and George Eliot was a harbinger of serious critical interest in the women's literary tradition. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 25 |
Textual Production | Edith J. Simcox | At the urgings of her publisher, Nikolaus Trübner
, EJS
began translating German idealist philosopher Eduard von Hartmann
's Philosophy of the Unconscious. She abandoned her plans upon discovering that her publication would not... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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. 81-2 |
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. 49 |
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 | 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 | Eva Figes | |
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. |
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