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.
Portrait of George Eliot, seated, after the 1881 painting of Francois Albert Durade.

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Travel Mathilde Blind
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.
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She also visited Warwickshire in the course of research for writing the life of...
Travel Fredrika Bremer
Again her impressions were distinctly mixed. She enjoyed the tail-end of the Great Exhibition; she met George Eliot , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Charles Kingsley , as well as the William HowittHowitts ; but she was...

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