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.
Portrait of George Eliot, seated, after the 1881 painting of Francois Albert Durade.

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Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
In her essays, reviews, introductions, and lectures, QDL also developed varied critiques of such authors as Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot , Charlotte Yonge , Marie Corelli , Edith Wharton , Naomi Mitchison , Amabel Williams-Ellis
Textual Production Eliza Lynn Linton
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.
qtd. in
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
305
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Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh
Textual Production 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.
qtd. in
Rich, Adrienne. Diving into the Wreck. Norton, 1973.
1
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
In her introductions to Edgeworth, EF notes Edgeworth's high opinion of Austen and Inchbald as novelists,
Figes, Eva, and Maria Edgeworth. “Introduction”. Belinda, Pandora, 1986, p. vii - xi.
viii
, argues that unlike Austen 's her young men need to grow up as much as her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Bessie Rayner Parkes
A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008.
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This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sophie Veitch
Religious Novels and the Christian Ideal laments that religious novels so seldom put forward truly admirable patterns of life, but instead encourage phariseeism and self-satisfaction. SV dissects with some disgust Ministering Children by Maria Louisa Charlesworth
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Penelope Fitzgerald
It includes Fitzgerald's comments on works by Jane Austen , George Eliot , Margaret Oliphant , Barbara Pym , Carol Shields , and Amy Tan , as well as on a number of recent literary...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Florence Nightingale
In one of the published articles, she praises George Eliot 's Middlemarch as a novel of genius.
qtd. in
Cook, Edward. The Life of Florence Nightingale. Macmillan, 1913, 2 vols.
97
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Zadie Smith
Her subjects include George Eliot 's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston , Franz Kafka , Vonnegut and Salinger as cult figures, Roland Barthes and Vladimir Nabokov (pitted against each other as attacker and booster of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Tytler
Clearly delighted with the opportunity to mix in literary circles, ST recorded her personal observations of these authors in Men and Women Met by the Way, the final 100-page-long section of her family autobiography...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edith J. Simcox
The work's episodes include At Anchor, Eclipse, Consolations, and The Shadow of Death.
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961.
66-70
Several of the stories explore facets of EJS 's feelings for George Eliot , while others speak...

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