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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Reception Lucy Walford
LW 's commentary suggest she was superficial in her judgements, anchoring her opinions time and again on appearance. A prominent example comes in her assessment of George Eliot , with whom she was invited to...
Reception Sir Walter Scott
Blackwood contrasted Scott's stormy relations with his publishers, with his own personal friendships with his authors, among them George Eliot .
Reception Ouida
Corelli took issue with the vicious reception Ouida had received, arguing that critics had read Ouida's novels in a spirit of fault-finding rather than giving the author . . . the fair chance of...
Reception Lucy Walford
In 1887 Coventry Patmore said of LW that her depictions of contemporary life far surpassed those of Dickens , Thackeray , Trollope , Eliot , and Gaskell , declaring her work to be equalled only...
Reception Margaret Fuller
The memoir of MF 's life which appeared (edited by Emerson and others) the year after her death aroused interest from such people as George Eliot and Henry Crabb Robinson . Robinson observed that no...
Reception Georgiana Craik
In a letter to GC 's father dated 11 December 1862, George Eliot wrote that she had read one of GC 's stories for children, So-Fat and Mew-Mew. She described it as a little...
Reception Bessie Rayner Parkes
Bodichon , who left much of the journal's management to BRP after moving abroad, felt that Parkes had a wildly exaggerated sense of the importance of her work.
Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span&gt”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38.
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George Eliot , while acknowledging that...
Reception Charlotte Maria Tucker
CMT , whose works sold very well, was regarded as a major female author during the mid-Victorian period. She was incensed when in 1882 some one wrote a sketch of her life, and requested her...
Publishing Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Further early short fiction by MEB appeared in The Welcome Guest, a John Maxwell publication that sold for twopence and aimed at the educated working classes. My Daughters, which appeared on 20 October...
Publishing Caroline Clive
After she became established as a novelist, CC was approached by the editors of the new Once a Week in April 1859 with a request to write a serial for them: she was their first...
Publishing Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray 's first novel, the anonymous The Story of Elizabeth, was serialized in the Cornhill Magazine alongside George Eliot 's Romola.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
Schwartz-McKinzie, Esther, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Introduction”. The Story of Elizabeth; and, Old Kensington, Thoemmes Press, p. iii - xxxii.
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Publishing Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
In later years, ESP published essays on George Eliot , whom she greatly admired, for Harper's Weekly (14 February 1885), The Independent (30 April 1885), and Harper's New Monthly Magazine (March 1882).
Publishing Emily Gerard
Dorothea thought up the plot for this book while she was supposed to be saying her morning prayers at her bedside. The sisters drafted it at a length sufficient to fill four volumes. They had...
Publishing Viola Meynell
Certain that the small religious firm Herbert and Daniel would not want this work, VM approached Martin Secker , newly established in 1909, who agreed to publish it even before reading it, on grounds of...
Publishing Dinah Mulock Craik
Dinah Mulock 's review of George Eliot 's The Mill on the Floss was published in Macmillan's Magazine.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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