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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 | Hesba Stretton | Calling the novel an offspring of a bold imagination, the Athenæum comments that it is written without labour or spurious ornament, and that certain scenes are very well described. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2046 (1867): 44 |
| Literary responses | Mary Renault | The book came out five years after the Sexual Offences Act in Britain decriminalised many homosexual practices there, and three years after the Stonewall Inn Riots in New York marked the start of Gay Liberation... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | George Eliot
considered the title poem exquisite. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 1: 72 Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages. 39 |
| Literary responses | Caroline Scott | This was one of the white neck-cloth Eliot, George. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, pp. 277-98. 293 Eliot, George. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, pp. 277-98. 279 |
| Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The American reviews were highly flattering. The reviewer for the Boston Transcript could think of no more powerful work from a woman's hand in the English language, not even George Eliot
at her best. Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus. 67 |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | A reader at Curtis Brown
praised DW
's very shrewd and natural gift of depicting her middle-class characters, while Lord Gorell
at John Murray
wrote: Much her best work and the former was good. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 23 |
| Literary responses | Isa Craig | One of the readers of the English Woman's Journal, Marian Lewes
, wrote to its proprietor, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, to say how deeply she had been affected by Infant Seamstresses. Supposing... |
| Literary responses | Michelene Wandor | The assessment by Nigella Lawson
in the Times Literary Supplement was astonishingly harsh. She argued that the domestic dramatic monologue form used here demands sureness, control and verbal dexterity which MW
did not possess. Lawson, Nigella. “Collusion and Intrusion”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4324, p. 162. 162 |
| 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. Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press. 299 |
| 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 | Jennifer Dawson | The Times Literary Supplement review described The Cold Country as a book in which JD
was a novelist with a mission, and in this respect positioned her with great writers such as George Eliot
... |
| 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. Lindblad, Ishrat. Pamela Hansford Johnson. Twayne. 125 |
| 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 Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge. 458 |
| 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 | Agnes Maule Machar | Responses to this novel were mixed. Poet William Wilfred Campbell
thought it a watered-down version of George Eliot
's Felix Holt, but The Week called Machar our most gifted authoress. Gerson, Carole, and Agnes Maule Machar. “Introduction”. Roland Graeme, Knight, Tecumseh Press, p. vii - xxiv. xix |
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