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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Catherine Hume | Bessie Rayner Parkes
recommended this work to George Eliot
. Eliot was not pleased with it and wrote, Heaven preserve me from reading Miss Hume's poems! . . . I was quite cowed by their... |
| Literary responses | Anne Mozley | George Eliot
not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's
expressly so that it... |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Bound in with the Bodleian
's copy of ?1795 is a fair scribal copy of Verses addressed to the Duchess of Devonshire upon reading her poem written in Switzerland, in 23 stanzas by W. Drummond |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | The anonymous Concluding Remarks supplied by Frederick Greenwood
, editor of the Cornhill, set the tone for responses. He ranked the three final novels by EG
's delicate strong hand qtd. in Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge, 1991. 458 |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Sarah Trimmer
disapproved of Things by their right Names and also of The Rookery, in which she felt the community of birds showed republican tendencies. George Eliot
, who read this book at seven... |
| Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | The preface was admired by George Eliot
, and Lydia Maria Child
called it a truly manly production: thus we are obliged to compliment the superior sex when we seek to praise our own. qtd. in Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004. 131 |
| Literary responses | J. K. Rowling | Of course nobody could review this book without implicit or explicit reference to the Harry Potter books. What, some wondered, would devoted child readers make of the sex and swearing? The novel violently divided commentators... |
| Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC
to Charlotte Brontë
or George Eliot
; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. qtd. in Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, Apr. 1970, pp. 213-28. 214 |
| Literary responses | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The Critical Review expressed impatience with yet another collection of memorabilia and complained that the book was deformed by colloquial barbarisms. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 61 (1786): 273 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | CB
received inquiries about the novel's ambiguous conclusion and the fate of M. Paul; she would not say which way the book was to end, commenting wrily that Drowning and Matrimony are the fearful alternatives... |
| Literary responses | Thomas Hardy | The result was the novel with which he achieved general popularity. The reviewer for The Spectator, writing before the novel's authorship was revealed, commented: If 'Far from the Madding Crowd' is not... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | This book resulted in public outcry. Douglas Jerrold
responded with wit: There is no God, and Harriet Martineau is his Prophet. qtd. in Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960. 299 |
| Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's friend Benjamin Jowett
praised David Grieve as the best novel since George Eliot
.Walter Pater
also approved, but critics were not enthusiastic. qtd. in Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press, 1970. 150 |
| Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Reviews were positive. Novelist Margaret Woods
felt that the archaic world it depicted was the root of Marcella's charm. Watters, Tamie, and Mary Augusta Ward. “Introduction”. Marcella, Virago, 1984, p. vii - xvi. xvi |
| Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | This novel marked a step forward in the public valuation of PHJ
. Walter Allen
called it one of the best novels of our time. qtd. in Lindblad, Ishrat. Pamela Hansford Johnson. Twayne, 1982. 125 |
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