Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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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She followed it up in in her address of 10 January 1913 as President of the English Association
, published in pamphlet form as A Discourse on Modern Sibyls, as well as in From...
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Evelyn Sharp
Sharp was an eager reader of Atalanta. She took full advantage of the service it offered of assessing essays on literary figures submitted for its competitions, sending in, among others, an essay on George Eliot
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Dinah Mulock Craik
DMC
never published under her name, but always as by the author of one or more of her preceding books. In a review of George Eliot
, she said she respected the author's pseudonym in...
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Flora Thompson
In 1923 The Catholic Fireside launched FT
's column entitled the Fireside Reading Circle. As well as competitions for readers, with her critiques on their efforts, it included her own essays on literary topics...
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Edith J. Simcox
EJS
began writing what she calls her autobiography although its form is that of a secret diary, intending it as a record of her constancy to George Eliot
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
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Edith J. Simcox
EJS
's autobiography was published for the first time, as A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot
: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker, edited by Constance M. Fulmer
and Margaret E. Barfield
.
Simcox, Edith J. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot. Editors Fulmer, Constance M. and Margaret E. Barfield, Garland, 1998.
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Naomi Alderman
NA
says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith
's White Teeth, Monica Ali
's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson
's Oranges...
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Julia Wedgwood
For the next thirty-five years she published steadily on religious, scientific, and moral concerns. She also produced profiles of other authors such as George Eliot
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
. A collection of this work...
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George Henry Lewes
GHL
published the first complete biography of Goethe in any language: The Life and Works of Goethe. George Eliot
assisted in the research.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1463 (1844): 1302-4
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press, 1991.
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Katharine S. Macquoid
George Eliot
wrote to KSM
on Christmas Day 1877 to thank her for sending a copy of her pretty tract about the Hospital.
Eliot, George, and Katharine S. Macquoid. Letter to Katharine S. Macquoid. 25 Dec. 1877.
This note has only recently been rediscovered. It was offered for sale...
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George Henry Lewes
Mind as a Function of the Organism, the final volume of GHL
's Problems of Life and Mind, appeared, seen through the press by George Eliot
after her partner's death.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press, 1991.
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Adrienne Rich
This collection contains two epigraphs: one from André Breton
's Nadja, and another from George Eliot
, which reads, There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life.
qtd. in
Rich, Adrienne. Diving into the Wreck. Norton, 1973.
MO
relates in her autobiography the genesis of this story. Having had several articles rejected by Blackwood's, she went to see the brothers and offer them a novel for serialisation. They shook their heads...
