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
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 Dinah Mulock Craik
Dinah Mulock 's review of George Eliot 's The Mill on the Floss was published in Macmillan's Magazine.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
chronology
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...
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.
Publishing Edith J. Simcox
EJS reviewed George Eliot 's Middlemarch for The Academy, again using her pseudonym H. Lawrenny.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
190
qtd. in
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961.
84
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, 1954–1978, 9 vols.
3: 213-14
Wordsworth, John, Bishop of Salisbury, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892, p. xii - xx.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Publishing Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Further early short fiction by MEB appeared in The Welcome Guest, a John Maxwell publication that sold for twopence and aimed at the educated working classes. My Daughters, which appeared on 20 October...
Publishing Caroline Clive
After she became established as a novelist, CC was approached by the editors of the new Once a Week in April 1859 with a request to write a serial for them: she was their first...
Reception Augusta Ada Byron
All this interest led to the naming of an annual Ada Lovelace Day to celebrate women in science. To mark the day in 2009 film-maker and artist Sydney Padua created a daring duo of dauntless...
Reception George Sand
Many other British writers were strongly influenced by GS : Geraldine Jewsbury , Matilda Hays , Anne Ogle , Eliza Lynn Linton , Mathilde Blind , and, most notably, Emily and Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
Reception Geraldine Jewsbury
In Blackwood's in May 1855, Margaret Oliphant declared that we have seen few books so perfectly unsatisfactory as Constance Herbert.
qtd. in
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
121
She criticized GJ for arranging her book around one woman's insanity, since 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...
Reception Ouida
Corelli took issue with the vicious reception Ouida had received, arguing that critics had read Ouida's novels in a spirit of fault-finding rather than giving the author . . . the fair chance of...
Reception Edith J. Simcox
EJS dedicated a personal copy of Natural Law to George Eliot and was extremely interested in her mentor's view of the work. Eliot reportedly offered moderate praise for the text—but given Simcox's admission that out...
Reception Elizabeth Gaskell
The quality of EG 's fiction was recognised early by her contemporaries. George Eliot exempted her, along with Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Brontë , from the ranks of Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, noting...

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