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.
A hostile notice by T. H. Huxley
in the Westminster Review (owned by John Chapman
) dismissed Lewes as an amateur and ranked his book below Harriet Martineau
's recent abridgement of Comte. George Eliot
Family and Intimate relationships
George Henry Lewes
GHL
became the lover of Marian Evans, who was as yet neither a novelist nor George Eliot, but simply a young woman courageously making her way in the London world of professional writing.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
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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.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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Textual Features
Amy Levy
She continued: The Jew, as we know him to-day, with his curious mingling of diametrically opposed qualities; his surprising virtues and no less surprising vices; leading his eager, intricate life; living, moving, and having his...
Intertextuality and Influence
Amy Levy
This novel too has a third-person narrator, but makes more extensive use of free indirect discourse. Its young Jewish protagonist, a lawyer who is already finding his ambitious plans for his career are a strain...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Vernon Lee
In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen
, Maria Edgeworth
,...
Family and Intimate relationships
Q. D. Leavis
The Roths were devastated by their daughter's decision to marry a gentile. They disowned her and ceased to give her any financial support. However, this period had its happy moments as well. Q. D. introduced...
Intertextuality and Influence
Q. D. Leavis
Here and elsewhere she published on a wide range of authors and literary topics, including Trollope
, Hardy
, Gissing
, Forster
, Orwell
, and Aldous Huxley
; the Anglo-Irish, American, French, Italian, and...
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...
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)...
Textual Production
Marghanita Laski
ML
went on to write several literary biographies: Jane Austen
and Her World (1969), and George Eliot
and Her World (1973), as well as her late biography of Kipling The work on Austen includes 137...