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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Olivia Manning | After her return to England she sometimes wrote for the BBC
(with which her husband was now a producer), providing scripts for the long-running serial Mrs. Dale's Diary, one number in the series A... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Lynn Linton | ELL
's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden
: titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens
, Thackeray
, George Eliot |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
had begun writing some years before this first publication. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
| Textual Production | Henry James | Although HJ
is best remembered as a novelist, he was also a prolific and insightful critic of literature and the arts. Over the course of his career he reviewed many novels by British women writers... |
| Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
's Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and George Eliot was a harbinger of serious critical interest in the women's literary tradition. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 25 |
| Textual Production | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
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... |
| Textual Production | Edith J. Simcox | EJS
began writing what she calls her autobiography although its form is that of a secret diary, intending it as a record of her constancy to George Eliot
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| Textual Production | Edith J. Simcox | EJS
's autobiography was published for the first time, as A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot
: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker, edited by Constance M. Fulmer
and Margaret E. Barfield
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Simcox, Edith J. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot. Editors Fulmer, Constance M. and Margaret E. Barfield, Garland. |
| 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. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 305 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| 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 | 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... |
| Textual Production | 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... |
Timeline
1879: Emily Francis Pattison (later Emilia Dilke)...
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1879
Emily Francis Pattison (later Emilia Dilke)
published (as E. F. S. Pattison) The Renaissance of Art in France.
April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...
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April 1879
James Murray
—editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
1886: Eva Hope's Queens of Literature of the Victorian...
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1886
Eva Hope
's Queens of Literature of the Victorian Era singled out Mary Somerville
, Harriet Martineau
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
, and Felicia Hemans
.
1886: The working-class, popular, evangelical writer...
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1886
The working-class, popular, evangelical writer Marianne Farningham
(born Mary Ann Hearne or Hearn
) published as Eva Hope a book called Queens of Literature of the Victorian Era which reveals unexpected feminist sympathies.
1896: Theodor Herzl published, both in German and...
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1896
Theodor Herzl
published, both in German and English, his foundational Zionist text The Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question.
June 1966: Anthropologist Mary Douglas published her...
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June 1966
AnthropologistMary Douglas
published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.
By early March 2009: Elaine Showalter published A Jury of Her...
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By early March 2009
Elaine Showalter
published A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet
to Annie Proulx.
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