Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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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never published under her name, but always as by the author of one or more of her preceding books. In a review of George Eliot
, she said she respected the author's pseudonym in...
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Q. D. Leavis
Here QDL
highlights Oliphant's anti-sentimental, critical view of Victorian county town insitutions and relations, and the comparatively independent, ironic attitude of the unstereotypical heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks (large, strong, unsentimental, insubordinate to men and with...
In 1897 ELL
contributed a section on George Eliot
to the collaborative Women Novelists of Queen Victoria
's Reign—which a fellow-contributor, Emma Marshall
, thought detestable.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley.
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Emma Marshall
EM
was an energetic letter-writer with a wide circle of correspondents. She often wrote occasional poetry (as, for instance, about religious music at the festival which later became the Three Choirs Festival
), and published...
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Flora Thompson
In 1923 The Catholic Fireside launched FT
's column entitled the Fireside Reading Circle. As well as competitions for readers, with her critiques on their efforts, it included her own essays on literary topics...
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...
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Geraldine Jewsbury
Although she disapproved of The Mill on the Floss, GJ
praised George Eliot
's Adam Bede for its genius and also liked Silas Marner for its depictions of human nature, however humbly embodied it...
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Elizabeth Gaskell
The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG
's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to...
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Adrienne Rich
This collection contains two epigraphs: one from André Breton
's Nadja, and another from George Eliot
, which reads, There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life.
Rich, Adrienne. Diving into the Wreck. Norton.
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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...
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Naomi Alderman
NA
says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith
's White Teeth, Monica Ali
's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson
's Oranges...
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Michelene Wandor
MW
has specialized in adapting and abridging novels for radio. Between 1980 and 2004 she adapted a wide array of fiction by women writers, including works by Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
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Evelyn Sharp
Sharp was an eager reader of Atalanta. She took full advantage of the service it offered of assessing essays on literary figures submitted for its competitions, sending in, among others, an essay on George Eliot
