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.
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.
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...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sophie Veitch
Religious Novels and the Christian Ideal laments that religious novels so seldom put forward truly admirable patterns of life, but instead encourage phariseeism and self-satisfaction. SV
dissects with some disgust Ministering Children by Maria Louisa Charlesworth
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Augusta Webster
She omits reviews from this collection, but provides readers with an opportunity to consider literary topics. The Translation of Poetry argues that because [i]n poetry the form of the thought is part of the thought...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth Bowen
She writes admiringly of Jane Austen
, but far less so of George Eliot
, whom she regards as over-intellectual.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
81-2
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Edith J. Simcox
The work's episodes include At Anchor, Eclipse, Consolations, and The Shadow of Death.
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press.
66-70
Several of the stories explore facets of EJS
's feelings for George Eliot
, while others speak...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Vernon Lee
In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen
, Maria Edgeworth
,...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Eliza Lynn Linton
The book makes disparaging allusion to George Eliot
and to the dislikable Robert Brabant
.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
49
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jane Hume Clapperton
JHC
also writes approvingly of free love, particularly George Eliot
's decision to join in domestic partnership with George Henry Lewes
. Eliot's decision, she says, was clearly motivated by Lewes's legal inability to obtain...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Eva Figes
In her introductions to Edgeworth, EF
notes Edgeworth's high opinion of Austen and Inchbald as novelists,
Figes, Eva, and Maria Edgeworth. “Introduction”. Belinda, Pandora, p. vii - xi.
viii
, argues that unlike Austen
's her young men need to grow up as much as her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Eliza Lynn Linton
ELL
says, indeed, comparatively little of her own life, but she is an observant, vivid, astute recorder of literary personalities and anecdotes. Her major literary portraits are those of Walter Savage Landor
and George Eliot
.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Edith J. Simcox
Despite its working title, Autobiography of a Shirtmaker, EJS
wrote that this record was not the autobiography of a shirtmaker but [of] a love.
Simcox, Edith J. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot. Editors Fulmer, Constance M. and Margaret E. Barfield, Garland.
32
Indeed, its first section is a devoted record of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...
