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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
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|---|---|---|
| Education | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Although FMM
's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she... |
| Education | Bernice Rubens | At university, she was President of both the student Music and Socialist societies, as well as a member of the Students' Union Council. Gilbert, Sarah. “Bernice Rubens”. Cardiff University Magazine, Vol. 1 , No. 1. |
| Education | Alison Uttley | Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) was a strong-willed child who set her own agenda. She later remembered a trial of wills, at the age of two, with her godmother, which ended not in her... |
| Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Like all her siblings but one, MG
had been taught to read before she went to the local Church of England
infants' school, St Michael's, at the age of five. Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962. 19 |
| Education | Charlotte Mew | CM
later attended lectures at University College, London
, and read widely in English and French. She particularly admired George Eliot
. Mew, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Collected Poems and Prose, edited by Val Warner, Carcanet and Virago, 1981, p. ix - xxii. ix |
| Education | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
knew her alphabet at three, and learned to read quickly once she suddenly perceived that the letters were symbols. Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin, 2001. 20 |
| Education | Jessie Fothergill | She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of... |
| Education | Agatha Christie | By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller
believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll |
| Education | Alice Meynell | In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM
) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . .... |
| Education | Toru Dutt | TD
and Aru
were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop, 1972. |
| Education | Susan Tweedsmuir | She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer
's... |
| Education | Kate Clanchy | As a child KC
loved Victorian stories for girls—Frances Hodgson Burnett
's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
(or Susan Coolidge)'s What Katy Did, and Louisa May Alcott |
| Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
| Education | Viola Meynell | After leaving school at sixteen, VM
read widely on her own, especially English authors: George Eliot
, Dickens
, George Meredith
, Arnold Bennett
, John Galsworthy
, and Thomas Hardy
. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002. 61, 65 |
| Education | Mary Lavin | It was, she said later, through reading that I passed from childhood to adulthood, first through a chance encounter with Eliot
's Adam Bede (and that was the end of the school stories)... |
Timeline
By December 1855: George Meredith published his first work...
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By December 1855
George Meredith
published his first work of fiction, The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1471 (1856): 6-7
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. George Meredith: His Life and Friends in Relation to His Work. Grant Richards, 1920.
79
December 1855: Barbara Leigh Smith, later Bodichon, founded...
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December 1855
Barbara Leigh Smith
, later Bodichon, founded the Married Women's Property Committee
(sometimes called the Women's Committee) to draw up a petition for a married women's property bill.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
78-9
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
32-3
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
245-8
14 March 1856: A petition for Reform of the Married Women's...
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14 March 1856
A petition for Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee
and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
32, 35
Helsinger, Elizabeth K. et al. The Woman Question. Garland, 1983.
2: 14
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
208
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
214
By 2 August 1856: Jane Margaret Strickland published a novel,...
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By 2 August 1856
Jane Margaret Strickland
published a novel, Adonijah, a tale of the Jewish Dispersion; it was shortly attacked by George Eliot
in Silly Novels by Lady Novelists as one of the deplorable types of fiction...
1858: Rachel Felix, the celebrated tragic actress,...
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1858
Rachel Felix
, the celebrated tragic actress, died of pulmonary consumption.
Booth, Michael R. et al. Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
115
February 1858: Bessie Rayner Parkes described to George...
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February 1858
Bessie Rayner Parkes
described to George Eliot
, in a letter, the limited company established by the Langham Place group to support The English Woman's Journal.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
134
Rendall, Jane. “A Moral Engine? Feminism, Liberalism and the English Womans JournalEqual or Different: Womens Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 112-38.
118-9
1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...
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1861
A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...
By 25 October 1862: Victor Hugo completed the publication in...
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By 25 October 1862
Victor Hugo
completed the publication in successive parts of his novel Les Misérables.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1826 (1862): 531
Petit Larousse, illustré, 1980. Librairie Larousse, 1980.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
312
October 1864: The Working Women's College opened in Queen...
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October 1864
The Working Women's College
opened in Queen Street, London.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
45-6
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1395
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
177-8
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
264
7 February 1865: The first issue appeared of George Smith's...
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7 February 1865
The first issue appeared of George Smith
's innovative evening newspaper, The Pall Mall Gazette.
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968.
380
Clarke, Bob. From Grub Street to Fleet Street. Ashgate, 2004.
258-9, 262
Bourne, H. R. Fox. English Newspapers. Russell and Russell, 1966, 2 vols.
2: 273, 274, 339, 341, 342
“Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century”. The British Library: The World’s Knowledge.
1871-1872: A civil trial against the Tichborne estate...
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1871-1872
A civil trial against the Tichborne estate trustees was brought to court and was eventually lost by the Tichborne Claimant who alleged that he was heir to the Tichborne estate in Hampshire.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
804-5
Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press, 2001.
202
January 1873: Jane Elizabeth Senior was appointed as a...
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January 1873
Jane Elizabeth Senior
was appointed as a (temporary) government inspector of pauper schools and workhouses: the first woman to hold this office.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
331
July 1875: Hercegovina (at this date part of Bosnia),...
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July 1875
Hercegovina (at this date part of Bosnia), rebelled against rule by Turkey; in 1876 Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro also rose.
Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. Editor Cave, Terence, Penguin, 1995.
824
October 1877: Charles Kegan Paul arranged to purchase the...
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October 1877
Charles Kegan Paul
arranged to purchase the publishing firm of his employer H. S. King
to form Kegan Paul and Co.
Howsam, Leslie. Kegan Paul—A Victorian Imprint. Kegan Paul; University of Toronto Press, 1998.
2, 78, 81-2, 89, 136-7, 189
1878: The first telephone company in the UK began...
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1878
The first telephone company in the UK began operations, at Chislehurst, Kent; it enabled private communication by phone between two points only.
Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
5: 226
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
359
Trotter, David. “The Person in the Phone Booth”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 2, 28 Jan. 2010, pp. 20-2. 20
Texts
Eliot, George. The Legend of Jubal. W. Blackwood, 1874.
Strauss, David Friedrich. The Life of Jesus. Translator Eliot, George, Chapman Brothers, 1846, 3 vols.
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. W. Blackwood, 1860, 3 vols.
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Clarendon, 1980.
Eliot, George, and W. B. Rands. The Poems of George Eliot. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1884.
Eliot, George. The Spanish Gypsy. W. Blackwood, 1868.