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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Anne Mozley
George Eliot not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's expressly so that it...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
The anonymous Concluding Remarks supplied by Frederick Greenwood , editor of the Cornhill, set the tone for responses. He ranked the three final novels by EG 's delicate strong hand
qtd. in
Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge, 1991.
458
as among the...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
Sarah Trimmer disapproved of Things by their right Names and also of The Rookery, in which she felt the community of birds showed republican tendencies. George Eliot , who read this book at seven...
Literary responses Frances Power Cobbe
The preface was admired by George Eliot , and Lydia Maria Child called it a truly manly production: thus we are obliged to compliment the superior sex when we seek to praise our own.
qtd. in
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
131
Literary responses J. K. Rowling
Of course nobody could review this book without implicit or explicit reference to the Harry Potter books. What, some wondered, would devoted child readers make of the sex and swearing? The novel violently divided commentators...
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 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...
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
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...
Occupation Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
His attention to questions of power and representation helped spawn poststructuralist theory. His unregenerate misogyny—expressed in contempt for little bluestockings
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin, 1990.
79
like George Eliot , for George Sand as a prolific writing-cow,
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin, 1990.
80
and...
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 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 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 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...

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