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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Textual Production 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.
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Textual Production Willa Cather
In the 1920s WC was working for a maximum of three hours a day, banishing her work from her mind during the rest of day, but keeping herself fresh for it. She said her only...
Textual Production 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. Letter to Katharine S. Macquoid.
This note has only recently been rediscovered. It was offered for sale...
Textual Production Alice Meynell
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Mathilde Blind
Her translation contains a prefatory life of Strauss. In translating from him she was following in the wake of George Eliot , whose version of his Life of Jesus, Critically Examined had appeared in 1846...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
LC wrote for the British Council a little book on George Eliot as one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News, also known as the Writers and Their Work series.
British Book News. British Council.
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Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
JP had begun writing some years before this first publication.
Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4.
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During the 1930s she produced nine long novels, in which she tried to emulate her literary heroes (theBrontësEmily Brontë , George Eliot ,...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Flora Thompson
In 1923 The Catholic Fireside launched FT 's column entitled the Fireside Reading Circle. As well as competitions for readers, with her critiques on their efforts, it included her own essays on literary topics...
Textual Production Patricia Beer
PB 's Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , Elizabeth Gaskell , and George Eliot was a harbinger of serious critical interest in the women's literary tradition.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research.
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1879: Emily Francis Pattison (later Emilia Dilke)...

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1879

Emily Francis Pattison (later Emilia Dilke) published (as E. F. S. Pattison) The Renaissance of Art in France.

April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...

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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.

1886: Eva Hope's Queens of Literature of the Victorian...

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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 .

1886: The working-class, popular, evangelical writer...

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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.

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.

June 1966: Anthropologist Mary Douglas published her...

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June 1966

AnthropologistMary Douglas published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.

By early March 2009: Elaine Showalter published A Jury of Her...

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By early March 2009

Elaine Showalter published A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.

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