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.
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In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
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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...
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Eliza Lynn Linton
ELL
's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden
: titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens
, Thackeray
, George Eliot
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Olivia Manning
After her return to England she sometimes wrote for the BBC
(with which her husband was now a producer), providing scripts for the long-running serial Mrs. Dale's Diary, one number in the series A...
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Henry James
Although HJ
is best remembered as a novelist, he was also a prolific and insightful critic of literature and the arts. Over the course of his career he reviewed many novels by British women writers...
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Adrienne Rich
This collection contains two epigraphs: one from André Breton
's Nadja, and another from George Eliot
, which reads, There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life.
qtd. in
Rich, Adrienne. Diving into the Wreck. Norton, 1973.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG
's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to...
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John Oliver Hobbes
JOH
was also responsible for the George Eliot
entry in the famous tenth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published in 1902. Written under the title Cross, Mary Ann, this is a somewhat idiosyncratic...
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Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy
, Ibsen
, and Zolarepulsive in the...
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Mathilde Blind
MB
published her George Eliot, the first life in the Eminent Women Series conceived by John H. Ingram
, and the first biography of her subject (just ahead of that by John Walter Cross
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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...
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Eliza Lynn Linton
In 1897 ELL
contributed a section on George Eliot
to the collaborative Women Novelists of Queen Victoria
's Reign—which a fellow-contributor, Emma Marshall
, thought detestable.
qtd. in
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
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Sophie Veitch
For five years she continued to publish articles, mainly reviews of fiction, for The Scottish Review. Her Echoes of the Eighteenth Century appeared in January 1885, George Eliot in April 1885, Current Fiction in...
Thomas Carlyle
was the first to prepare a collection of JWC
's letters for publication. Shortly after her death in 1866—full of sorrow at her loss and regret at his neglect of her—he began assembling...
