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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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:...
politics Edith J. Simcox
On 12 December 1877 EJS remarked in her autobiography that a Council was appointed to which I was nominated, then Mrs Besant , then Mrs Harriet Law , and Mr Bradlaugh in between. I had...
politics Queen Victoria
Most Victorian women writers commented in some way on the Queen's role. Christina Rossetti engaged with it positively in Our Widowed Queen, while George Eliot 's narrator in Felix Holt, the Radical refers to...
politics Emily Davies
A College Committee was struck and met for the first time on 5 December 1867.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
165
ED approached Lady Stanley about sitting on the committee, but she declined.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
161-2
A meeting held on 28 March...
politics Herbert Spencer
In Spencer's view, women's inferiority was clearly evolutionary, not cultural. In The Study of Sociology and The Principles of Sociology, he claims that women's biology (or their reproductive role) impairs their intellectual and physical...
politics May Sinclair
It was an act of great courage for MS to make herself so conspicuous. Cicely Hamilton and Catherine Gasquoine Hartley led the procession. Members of the WWSL each carried a goose quill and a bannerette...
Author summary George Henry Lewes
At GHL 's death in 1878, Anthony Trollope praised him as journalist, editor, critic, philosophical populariser, biographer, and scientific writer.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press, 1991.
279
One of the leading Victorian men of letters, he is nevertheless remembered chiefly as...
Author summary Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell , one of the foremost fiction-writers of the mid-Victorian period, produced a corpus of seven novels, numerous short stories, and a controversial biography of Charlotte Brontë . She wrote extensively for periodicals, as...
Author summary George Sand
French writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) wrote over one hundred novels and plays. Her correspondence fills twenty-five volumes. She averaged two novels a year after 1831. British writers including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot
Author summary Mathilde Blind
MB was one of the leading poets of the later nineteenth century; her burning sense of political and social injustice runs like a unifying thread through her work. Her poetry combines great beauty of sound...
Author summary Mary Augusta Ward
Best known for her influential loss-of-faith novel Robert Elsmere, MAW was among the more prolific and popular novelists of the later Victorian and Edwardian periods. Her fifty-year career spanned an era of enormous transformation...
Author summary Jessie Fothergill
During her relatively short career in the later nineteenth century, Jessie Fothergill produced fourteen novels, many of which ran to several editions and appeared in Indian and Australian journals,
Jane Crisp refers to JF 's...
Publishing Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray 's first novel, the anonymous The Story of Elizabeth, was serialized in the Cornhill Magazine alongside George Eliot 's Romola.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
Schwartz-McKinzie, Esther, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Introduction”. The Story of Elizabeth; and, Old Kensington, Thoemmes Press, 1995, p. iii - xxxii.
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Publishing Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
In later years, ESP published essays on George Eliot , whom she greatly admired, for Harper's Weekly (14 February 1885), The Independent (30 April 1885), and Harper's New Monthly Magazine (March 1882).
Publishing Matilda Hays
When, however, MH submitted an article on women's rights to the Westminster Review in early 1856, George Eliot did her best to prevent its being published.

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