George Eliot

22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880

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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Literary responses	Thomas Hardy	The result was the novel with which he achieved general popularity. The reviewer for The Spectator, writing before the novel's authorship was revealed, commented: If 'Far from the Madding Crowd' is not...
Literary responses	Harriet Martineau	This book resulted in public outcry. Douglas Jerrold responded with wit: There is no God, and Harriet Martineau is his Prophet. qtd. in Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960. 299 Mary Howitt came to regret her contribution to the most awful book that...
Literary responses	Mary Augusta Ward	MAW 's friend Benjamin Jowett praised David Grieve as the best novel since George Eliot .Walter Pater also approved, but critics were not enthusiastic. qtd. in Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press, 1970. 150 Sales were good, but there were some hostile reviews...
Literary responses	Mary Augusta Ward	Reviews were positive. Novelist Margaret Woods felt that the archaic world it depicted was the root of Marcella's charm. Watters, Tamie, and Mary Augusta Ward. “Introduction”. Marcella, Virago, 1984, p. vii - xvi. xvi Margaret Oliphant criticised the author in Blackwood's for asking readers to surrender all our...
Literary responses	Pamela Hansford Johnson	This novel marked a step forward in the public valuation of PHJ . Walter Allen called it one of the best novels of our time. qtd. in Lindblad, Ishrat. Pamela Hansford Johnson. Twayne, 1982. 125 It reminded him of George Eliot : he praised...
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. qtd. in Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972. 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	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	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	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, 1976. 54n At Bolton Le Moors she began keeping house for her brother Walter. She worked as a conservationist to preserve various monuments...
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, qtd. in Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press, 1954–1978, 9 vols. 6: 318n6 which she described in a December letter to GE:...
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...

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