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  1. George Eliot

    George Eliot. Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian[ 1][ 2] ), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. [ 3] She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas ...

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    George Eliot was an English Victorian novelist who developed the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction. Her major works include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876). Evans was born on an

  3. The Best George Eliot Books

    George Eliot is all but synonymous with Victorian realism; for D H Lawrence, she was the first novelist to start 'putting all the action inside.'Here, Philip Davis, author of The Transferred Life of George Eliot, selects the best books by or about one of the greatest novelists of all time: 'If you want to read literature that sets out to create a holding ground for raw human material ...

  4. George Eliot: The genius who scandalised society

    Eventually, she fell for another writer, George Henry Lewes. Urbane and famously ugly, he was trapped in a marriage to a wife who'd long been the lover of another man and had even borne children ...

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    George Eliot Biography. Born: November 22, 1819. Warwickshire, England. Died: December 22, 1880. London, England. English author and novelist. George Eliot was the pen name (a writing name) used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans, one of the most important writers of European fiction. Her masterpiece, Middlemarch, is not only a major social ...

  6. Biography of George Eliot, English Novelist

    Updated on January 30, 2020. Born Mary Ann Evans, George Eliot (November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880) was an English novelist during the Victorian era. Although female authors did not always use pen names in her era, she chose to do so for reasons both personal and professional. Her novels were her best-known works, including Middlemarch ...

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    George Eliot - Novels, Poetry, Essays: At Weimar and Berlin she wrote some of her best essays for The Westminster and translated Spinoza's Ethics (published in 1981), while Lewes worked on his groundbreaking life of Goethe. By his pen alone he had to support his three surviving sons at school in Switzerland as well as Agnes, whom he gave £100 a year, which was continued until her death in 1902.

  8. George Eliot Overview: A Biography Of George Eliot

    George Eliot 1819-1880. George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, a novelist who produced some of the major classic novels of the Victorian era, including The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Daniel Deronda and her masterpiece, Middlemarch.. It is impossible to overestimate the significance of Eliot's novels in the English culture: they went right to the ...

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    George Eliot is widely recognized as one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century; yet her two volumes of poetry are often ignored in modern critical assessments. Like so many of her contemporaries, Eliot tried to make significant literary contributions in more than one genre; her poems—both narrative and lyric—deal, however ...

  10. A New Look At George Eliot That's Surprisingly Approachable

    Eliot, who was described physically by Henry James as "magnificently ugly — deliciously hideous," lived unmarried with her lover George Lewes, and told one friend that they practiced birth ...

  11. Review of The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biography

    The literary biographer's most difficult task is to find plausible, sophisticated ways of connecting a human life with the art that emerges from it. In the case of a major imaginative artist like George Eliot, the accumulated weight of previous biographies and critical studies only makes that task more challenging. Nancy Henry confronts this situation head-on in The Life of George Eliot.

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    Juliet Stevenson CBE is an actress who received the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress. Her film credits include Truly Madly Deeply, Mona Lisa Smile, Being Julia and Bend It Like Beckham. Their discussion is chaired by Eliot biographer, Kathryn Hughes. Her works include George Eliot: The Last Victorian and Victorians Undone: Tales of ...

  13. George Eliot: A Woman's Voice in a Man's World

    George Eliot died on December 22, 1880, from complications of a kidney disease, which built up over the years of her life. George Eliot was an iconic but controversial poet of her time. Mary Ann Evans famously gave herself the pen name George Eliot in a largely male-dominated industry and society in general. Throughout her career, she published ...

  14. George Eliot Biography

    George Eliot. Mary Anne Evans, who wrote under the pseudonym George Eliot, was born on November 22, 1819, at South Farm, Arbury Hall in Warwickshire. She was the youngest of five children. Mary Anne was afforded the privileges of a private education.

  15. George Eliot Facts

    Novelist and poet George Eliot—who was born in England on November 22, 1819—is best remembered for writing classic books like Middlemarch and Silas Marner. Despite the time period she wrote in ...

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    BIOGRAPHY. George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans at five o'clock in the morning of St. Cecilia's Day, 22 November 1819, at South Farm, Arbury, Warwickshire. Her father was Robert Evans (b. 1773) and her mother was his second wife, Christiana Pearson (b. ca. 1788), whom he had married in 1813.

  17. Best of George Eliot (10 books)

    No comments have been added yet. 10 books based on 48 votes: Middlemarch by George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, Silas Marner by George Eliot, Daniel Deronda by George El...

  18. The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biography

    The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work. A fresh look at George Eliot's captivating life story.

  19. Biographies of George Eliot

    The biography of George Eliot from which others take their bearings is George Eliot's Life as related in her letters... Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.

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    Mill on the Floss. Mill on the Floss is George Eliot's second novel published in 1860. It was preceded by Adam Bede the first of the George Eliot novels. Mill on the Floss narrates the story of Maggie Tulliver and the challenges of balancing her familial ties with her romantic relationships.

  21. George Eliot's Published Writing · George Eliot Archive

    The most complete collection of George Eliot's nonfiction is curated by the George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org. It includes all the essays published in earlier collections, including Charles L. Lewes's Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book (London & Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons, 1883 ...