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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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... |
Cultural formation | Rose Macaulay | |
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 | Kate Clanchy | As a child KC
loved Victorian stories for girls—Frances Hodgson Burnett
's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
(or Susan Coolidge)'s What Katy Did, and Louisa May Alcott |
Education | Bernice Rubens | At university, she was President of both the student Music and Socialist societies, as well as a member of the Students' Union Council. Gilbert, Sarah. “Bernice Rubens”. Cardiff University Magazine, No. 1. |
Education | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
knew her alphabet at three, and learned to read quickly once she suddenly perceived that the letters were symbols. Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Kirkup, JamesTranslator , Penguin, 2001. 20 |
Education | Mary Lavin | It was, she said later, through reading that I passed from childhood to adulthood, first through a chance encounter with Eliot
's Adam Bede (and that was the end of the school stories)... |
Education | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College
in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her... |
Education | C. E. Plumptre | Though nothing is know of CEP
's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould
noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
Education | Susan Tweedsmuir | She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer
's... |
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 |
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.