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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Cultural formation | Rose Macaulay | |
Cultural formation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | By December 1860 BLSB
was sufficiently interested in Roman Catholicism
(to which Bessie Rayner Parkes
later converted) to write about her interest to George Eliot
, who responded with sympathy but a clear statement of... |
death | Augusta Webster | Theodore Watts-Dunton
's tribute in the Athenæum recalled a noble band of women represented by George Eliot
, Mrs. Webster, and Miss Cobbe
, who, in virtue of lofty purpose, purity of soul, and deep... |
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... |
death | George Henry Lewes | GHL
, writer and partner of George Eliot
, died at The Priory, near Regent's Park. Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press, 1991. 277 |
Dedications | Jane Hume Clapperton | She dedicated the book to the memory of my early teachers, George Eliot
and James Cranbrook
, as well as her friend the author George Arthur Gaskell
. Clapperton, Jane Hume. Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. , 1885. v |
Education | Pearl S. Buck | Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch
's Lives and Foxe
's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare |
Education | Sarah Orne Jewett | She read extensively as a child, and came early to authors as diverse as Jane Austen
, George Eliot
, Margaret Oliphant
, Henry Fielding
, Laurence Sterne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
and Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Education | Dervla Murphy | Her self-education continued. She had a conversion experience on attending a performance of Hamlet after classroom study had put her off Shakespeare
. She read all the works of all the great English novelists, Murphy, Dervla. Wheels within Wheels. J. Murray, 1979. 167 |
Education | Amy Levy | At some time during her girlhood AL
listed her favourite poets as all men, while her favourite prose writers included Charlotte Brontë
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, George Eliot
, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie
. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000. 16 |
Education | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Her family's financial troubles prevented EJP
from receiving a formal or thorough education. In her own words, education was not within the reach of the gently born who were also poor, therefore I had little... |
Education | Margaret Atwood | She attended elementary school, and then from 1952 Leaside High School
in Toronto, both in the Protestant public school system operating in Ontario alongside a Catholic one. She and her schoolmates got prayers and... |
Education | Frances Power Cobbe | Her continuing studies, particularly of theology, benefitted from access to Archbishop Marsh's Library
in Dublin (though it was ostensibly open only to gentlemen and graduates). Her reading at this period may have included Marian Evans, later George Eliot |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot
, Thomas Hardy
, Charles Dickens
, and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust
, James Joyce
, Henry James |
Education | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Although FMM
's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she... |
Timeline
About 1349-1351
Giovanni Boccaccio
worked at his cycle of tales entitled (from the fact that the stories are told over the course of ten days) the Decameron. It was first translated into English in 1620.
1495
In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence, Italy, Girolamo Savonarola
destroyed texts by Ovid
, Dante
, Boccaccio
and others.
1677
Baruch or Benedictus de Spinoza
's Ethics, probably his most important text, was published shortly after his death at the age of forty-four.
January 1802
The Christian Observer was launched, as a journalConducted by members of the established church with the aim of combating Methodism
and other Dissenting sects as well as radicalism and scepticism.
April 1817
The first issue of Blackwood's EdinburghMagazine appeared; founder William Blackwood
intended to offer Tory competition to the liberal Edinburgh Review.
1826
The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was grouped by authorities with all nomadic or vagrant peoples, who were estimated by William Cobbett
to number around 30,000.
1828
The first issue of the successful annual gift bookThe Keepsake appeared; lavish production and distinguished contributors raised the price of this and other such publications to a guinea.
22 March 1832
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
died at Weimar in Germany in his early eighties.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cambridge University Press, 1911.
20 March 1839
The Anti-Corn Law League
was founded.
1841
Ludwig Feuerbach
published Das Wesen des Christentums, an influential philosophical work demythologising Christianity.
1843
Charles Edward Mudie
opened his first circulating library
.
March 1848
Chartist uprisings took place in London, Glasgow, and Manchester.
1851
French medical researcher Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard
experimented with the effects of blood transfusion on the responsiveness of nerves in human corpses.
January 1852
Publisher John Chapman
purchased the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly and began issuing it as the Westminster Review (which, twenty-eight years and several mergers back, had been its original name).
July 1855
Alfred Tennyson
published Maud and Other Poems.