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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Education | Bernice Rubens | At university, she was President of both the student Music and Socialist societies, as well as a member of the Students' Union Council. Gilbert, Sarah. “Bernice Rubens”. Cardiff University Magazine, Vol. 1 , No. 1. |
| Education | Alison Uttley | Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) was a strong-willed child who set her own agenda. She later remembered a trial of wills, at the age of two, with her godmother, which ended not in her... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 32-56. 34 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | A vocal advocate of the single life in her novels and essays, she had long admired the kind of equal marriages enjoyed by Annie Fields
and George Eliot
. For her, Eliot's art was invigorated... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Frankau | Her daughter Joan (by marriage Joan Bennett
) became a university teacher and published books in the 1940s on George Eliot
and Virginia Woolf
. Frankau, Reuben. Emails to Orlando about Julia Frankau, with attached bibliography. 15–16 Aug. 2011. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edith J. Simcox | In connection with writing a review of Middlemarch for The Academy, EJS
met George Eliot
. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961. 84 Haight, Gordon S., and Keith Alexander McKenzie. “Introduction”. Edith Simcox and George Eliot, Oxford University Press, 1961, p. xi - xviii. xiii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Henry Lewes | GHL
became the lover of Marian Evans, who was as yet neither a novelist nor George Eliot, but simply a young woman courageously making her way in the London world of professional writing. Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press, 1991. 4, 333 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's mother, Jane Maria (Grant), Lady Strachey
, was born on 13 March 1840 aboard an East India Company
ship off the Cape of Good Hope. Her parents were Henrietta Chichele (of an... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | W. H. Auden | Nicholas Jenkins
of Stanford University
formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edith J. Simcox | EJS
, while passionate in her desire for George Eliot
, would not allow the same kind of devotion to be bestowed upon herself. In 1881 one of her acquaintances (known to posterity only as... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Stead | Within a year CS
had become the lover of her American manager at work. William James Blech (later Blake)
, whom she called Wilhelm at first and later Bill. He was both an investment... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Berta Ruck | Her Welsh grandmother, born Mary Anne Mathews
, whom she called Nain, had kept a youthful journal, some of which BR
prints. Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson, 1970. 81-2ff |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | The Roths were devastated by their daughter's decision to marry a gentile. They disowned her and ceased to give her any financial support. However, this period had its happy moments as well. Q. D. introduced... |
| Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Barbara Leigh Smith
was introduced to George Eliot
by Bessie Rayner Parkes
; they soon became close. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 106 |
Timeline
1879: Emily Francis Pattison (later Emilia Dilke)...
Women writers item
1879
Emily Francis Pattison (later Emilia Dilke)
published (as E. F. S. Pattison) The Renaissance of Art in France.
Israel, Kali. Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture. Oxford University Press, 1999.
April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...
Writing climate item
April 1879
James Murray
—editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.
93, 107, 109
1886: Eva Hope's Queens of Literature of the Victorian...
Women writers item
1886
Eva Hope
's Queens of Literature of the Victorian Era singled out Mary Somerville
, Harriet Martineau
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
, and Felicia Hemans
.
Hope, Eva. Queens of Literature of the Victorian Era. Walter Scott, 1886.
passim
1886: The working-class, popular, evangelical writer...
Women writers item
1886
The working-class, popular, evangelical writer Marianne Farningham
(born Mary Ann Hearne or Hearn
) published as Eva Hope a book called Queens of Literature of the Victorian Era which reveals unexpected feminist sympathies.
Wilson, Linda. “Women’s History Month: Marianne Farningham”. Women’s History Network Blog, 16 Mar. 2010.
1896: Theodor Herzl published, both in German and...
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1896
Theodor Herzl
published, both in German and English, his foundational Zionist text The Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
348
June 1966: Anthropologist Mary Douglas published her...
Women writers item
June 1966
AnthropologistMary Douglas
published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger. Routledge, 2002.
2, xvi-xviii
Fardon, Richard. Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography. Routledge, 1999.
80-3
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translator Roudiez, Leon S., Columbia University Press, 1982.
65-6
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1967
By early March 2009: Elaine Showalter published A Jury of Her...
Writing climate item
By early March 2009
Elaine Showalter
published A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet
to Annie Proulx.
Roiphe, Katie. “Writing Women”. The New York Times Sunday Book Review, 5 Mar. 2009.
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