George Eliot

22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880

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.

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Textual Features	Flora Macdonald Mayor	While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4223 (9 March 1984): 238 in the eyes of some, the heroine here defies such a one-sided image. Leonard Woolf found Mary Jocelyn very reserved...
Education	Charlotte Mew	CM later attended lectures at University College, London , and read widely in English and French. She particularly admired George Eliot . Mew, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Collected Poems and Prose, edited by Val Warner, Carcanet and Virago, p. ix - xxii. ix
Education	Alice Meynell	In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM ) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . ....
Textual Production	Alice Meynell	As a reviewer, AM dealt with writing by Samuel Johnson , Christina Rossetti , George Eliot , Emily Brontë , Dickens , Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Jean Ingelow , Charles Williams ,...
Education	Viola Meynell	After leaving school at sixteen, VM read widely on her own, especially English authors: George Eliot , Dickens , George Meredith , Arnold Bennett , John Galsworthy , and Thomas Hardy . MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen. 61, 65
Literary responses	Viola Meynell	In The Bookman, C. E. Lawrence welcomed this novel as an individual effort of work which proves that however much she may have studied in the past . . . Miss Meynell has a...
Publishing	Viola Meynell	Certain that the small religious firm Herbert and Daniel would not want this work, VM approached Martin Secker , newly established in 1909, who agreed to publish it even before reading it, on grounds of...
Education	L. M. Montgomery	LMM attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her...
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...
Publishing	Anne Mozley	AM wrote for Bentley's Quarterly, during the first year of its brief run, a review of Adam Bede (anonymous, of course), which George Eliot called on the whole the best review we have seen. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 3: 213-14 Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx. x Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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...
Education	Dervla Murphy	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, Murphy, Dervla. Wheels within Wheels. J. Murray. 167
Friends, Associates	Constance Naden	CN was a friend of the two poets who shared the name Michael Field (who also came from Birmingham) and of the medical doctor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (who presumably did not hold against her the...
Reception	Constance Naden	He offered a list of the best eight women poets, where CN was included together with Elizabeth Barrett Browning (at the head) and Christina Rossetti (who was annoyed that he omitted Augusta Webster ). He...
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. 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. 80 and...

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