Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Lucy Walford | LW
had many friends among literary people and those who moved in literary circles. She discussed the books of her childhood with Reginald Palgrave
, who shared many of her early reading experiences, and Wilkie Collins |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | It was John Blackwood
who thought of the eventual title, after candidates including The Tullivers, St. Oggs on the Floss, Sister Maggie, and The House of Tulliver; or, Life on the Floss... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | John Blackwood
, though he published it, disliked this story as too negative. It apparently appealed to French artist H. É. Blanchon
, however, whose painting La transfusion du sang, based on the tale's... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Middlemarch's mode of publication meant that responses were coming in long before the book was complete, including formal reviews. R. H. Hutton
for instance, wrote no less than 6 reviews for the Spectator... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | John Blackwood
was in general delighted with the manuscript of Amos Barton. Thackeray
, too, read it and was impressed. Blackwood
's few criticisms (particularly of the ending, which he found comparatively feeble) appalled... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Again early criticism from John Blackwood
upset GE
. But Blackwood's response when she suggested ending her series of tales reassured her how much he valued them. |
| Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | John Blackwood
reproved MO
for over-using favourite words in this book: he noticed specifically perplexed,troubled,little, and poor. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 300 |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas
began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever qtd. in Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971. 131 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | John Blackwood
complained of a certain hardness of tone qtd. in Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 225 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | John Blackwood
, who knew her work well, once wrote that he considered biography her greatest forte. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 253 |
| Publishing | George Eliot | She began work on it by 6 September 1864, but within a few months (in February 1865) she was so bogged down and anxious that Lewes confiscated her manuscript. She took it up again in... |
| Publishing | George Eliot | George Henry Lewes
persuaded Blackwood
to undertake this unusual mode of publication, because Middlemarch was too long to fit the three-volume format which was by now the staple of the circulating library. They hoped to... |
| Publishing | George Eliot | GE
adopted in writing to her publisher, John Blackwood
, her now famous pseudonym: before this Blackwood had written to her as author of, or even as Dear Amos. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press, 1954–1978, 9 vols. 2: 290-2 |
| Publishing | George Eliot | Having become deeply interested herself in Jewish culture and history, GE
aimed in this book to widen the English vision a little. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press, 1954–1978, 9 vols. 6: 304 |
| Publishing | George Eliot | The eighth and final book of GE
's Middlemarch appeared, causing publisher John Blackwood
to write that the year would be remembered for this event. Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall, 1989. 127 Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press, 1954–1978, 9 vols. 5: 352-3 |
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April 1817: The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh...
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April 1817
The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine appeared; founder William Blackwood
intended to offer Tory competition to the liberal Edinburgh Review.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 7-9, 11
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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