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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EJS
's autobiography was published for the first time, as A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot
: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker, edited by Constance M. Fulmer
and Margaret E. Barfield
.
Simcox, Edith J. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot. Editors Fulmer, Constance M. and Margaret E. Barfield, Garland, 1998.
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Naomi Alderman
NA
says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith
's White Teeth, Monica Ali
's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson
's Oranges...
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George Henry Lewes
GHL
published the first complete biography of Goethe in any language: The Life and Works of Goethe. George Eliot
assisted in the research.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1463 (1844): 1302-4
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press, 1991.
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Julia Wedgwood
For the next thirty-five years she published steadily on religious, scientific, and moral concerns. She also produced profiles of other authors such as George Eliot
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
. A collection of this work...
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Dorothy Richardson
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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George Henry Lewes
Mind as a Function of the Organism, the final volume of GHL
's Problems of Life and Mind, appeared, seen through the press by George Eliot
after her partner's death.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press, 1991.
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Katharine S. Macquoid
George Eliot
wrote to KSM
on Christmas Day 1877 to thank her for sending a copy of her pretty tract about the Hospital.
Eliot, George, and Katharine S. Macquoid. Letter to Katharine S. Macquoid. 25 Dec. 1877.
This note has only recently been rediscovered. It was offered for sale...
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Margaret Oliphant
MO
relates in her autobiography the genesis of this story. Having had several articles rejected by Blackwood's, she went to see the brothers and offer them a novel for serialisation. They shook their heads...
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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.
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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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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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
