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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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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Textual Production
Evelyn Sharp
Sharp was an eager reader of Atalanta. She took full advantage of the service it offered of assessing essays on literary figures submitted for its competitions, sending in, among others, an essay on George Eliot
Textual Production
Dinah Mulock Craik
DMC
never published under her name, but always as by the author of one or more of her preceding books. In a review of George Eliot
, she said she respected the author's pseudonym in...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
The 1888 edition features a sonnet written for Shelley
, as well as one written on 29 December 1880 for George Eliot
(a week following her death), entitled The Lost Light.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Sonnets and Songs (1880). Editors Fife, Cody and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998.
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
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...
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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, 1986, 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
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Bessie Rayner Parkes
A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008.
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The book makes disparaging allusion to George Eliot
and to the dislikable Robert Brabant
.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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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
