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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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
Clearly delighted with the opportunity to mix in literary circles, ST
recorded her personal observations of these authors in Men and Women Met by the Way, the final 100-page-long section of her family autobiography...
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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, 1961.
66-70
Several of the stories explore facets of EJS
's feelings for George Eliot
, while others speak...
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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, 1998.
32
Indeed, its first section is a devoted record of...
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Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
It contains many previously published reviews and essays, including her thoughts on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers. In a review, JFLW
calls Harriet Martineauone of the cleverest female intellects of the age,
Wilde, Jane Francesca, Lady. Notes on Men, Women, and Books. Ward and Downey, 1891.
112
but finds...
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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, 1978.
81-2
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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, 1996.
49
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anthony Trollope
The critical opinions he voices here are often cited. Chapter 13, entitled On English Novelists of the Present Day, gives first place to Thackeray
and second to George Eliot
. On her he voices...
Travel
Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE
spent a week with George Eliot
, George Henry Lewes
, and Barbara Bodichon
at an old rectory at Swanmore in the Isle of Wight, which Bodichon had rented for a Christmas holiday.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp.
Her preface to The Heather on Fire reports another visit, to the Isle of Arran in the summer of 1884.
Blind, Mathilde. The Heather on Fire. Walter Scott, 1886.
3
She also visited Warwickshire in the course of research for writing the life of...
Travel
Henry James
HJ
travelled in England and Europe. While in England he introduced himself to some of the most important writers of the day, including George Eliot
, George Henry Lewes
, and Charles Darwin
.
Tóibín, Colm. “A Man with My Trouble”. London Review of Books, 3 Jan. 2008, pp. 15-18.
16
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995.
365
Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood, 1989.
xix
Travel
Michèle Roberts
After getting married, MR
travelled to Rome with her husband, where since he worked at scholarly research both during the day and in the evenings, Dorothea's marriage to Casaubon [in Eliot
&s Middlemarch], and...
