Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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,
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
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...
BB
described her reading at nine years old as a mixture: George Eliot
and children's writers like Richmal Crompton
and Susan Coolidge (Sarah Woolsey
): Just William, What Katy Did, The Mill...
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 .
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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.
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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
Over the course of her life, RM
's religious practices ranged between Anglican
and Anglo-agnostic. She was initially given instruction in the Anglican faith by her mother. As an early adolescent (like George Eliot
's...
