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
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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. 338 |
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 | As a reviewer, AM
dealt with writing by Samuel Johnson
, Christina Rossetti
, George Eliot
, Emily Brontë
, Dickens
, Robert Browning
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Jean Ingelow
, Charles Williams
,... |
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. (1951): 673 |
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. 23 |
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. 25 |
Timeline
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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