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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Lucas Malet | Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Literary responses | Viola Meynell | In The Bookman, C. E. Lawrence
welcomed this novel as an individual effort of work which proves that however much she may have studied in the past . . . Miss Meynell has a... |
| 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 | Emma Frances Brooke | The book was similarly well-received across the Atlantic. The Brooklyn Eagle found that the first few chapters almost reminds one of George Eliot
. Brooke, Emma Frances. Sir Elyot of the Woods. William Heinemann, 1907. endmatter |
| Literary responses | Jessie Fothergill | The subject-matter led one reviewer to comment that JFdoes not deal with the most agreeable of subjects. Gardiner, Linda. “Jessie Fothergill’s Novels”. Novel Review, Vol. 1 , No. 1, 1892, pp. 153-60. 159 |
| Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Arthur Conan Doyle
considered this novel better than anything George Eliot
had written. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 243 |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Elliot | LCE
received little critical attention either during or after her lifetime. The Athenæum obituary by Theodore Watts
described her as perhaps the latest noticeable addition to that bright roll of female poets of which Scotland... |
| Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | The Athenæum, describing Belinda as RB
's worst novel, noted a similarity of her central couple to Dorothea and Casaubon in George Eliot
's Middlemarch. It deemed Eliot's characterisation decidedly superior, maintaning that... |
| Literary responses | Edith J. Simcox | As noted by Laurie Zierer
in Broomfield
and Mitchell
's anthology of Victorian women writers, EJS
's connection with George Eliot
has saved her from permanent obscurity, [but] her stature as a Victorian writer and... |
| Literary responses | Lettice Cooper | The Manchester Guardian reviewer, Charles Marriott
, used a flattering comparison with George Eliot
, writing that LChas done for a contemporary industrial town . . . pretty much what Middlemarch did for a... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | A letter from George Eliot
written on 13 November 1877 thanked ESP
for her copy of Avis: I find the writing . . . filled with indications of that keen sensibility and observation which... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley
felt that the author was now raving like a pagan Pythoness—the female oracle whose pronouncements were not expected to be comprehensible: There is a positive untruth to the very... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter
), the book of the season. Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers, 1877. 113 |
| Literary responses | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | The Saturday Review called Once and Again a great advance upon any previous effort of the writer's. qtd. in Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols. |
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