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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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...
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Mathilde Blind
Her translation contains a prefatory life of Strauss. In translating from him she was following in the wake of George Eliot
, whose version of his Life of Jesus, Critically Examined had appeared in 1846...
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Jean Plaidy
JP
had begun writing some years before this first publication.
Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, 4 July 1991, pp. 23-4.
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During the 1930s she produced nine long novels, in which she tried to emulate her literary heroes (theBrontësEmily Brontë
, George Eliot
,...
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Willa Cather
In the 1920s WC
was working for a maximum of three hours a day, banishing her work from her mind during the rest of day, but keeping herself fresh for it. She said her only...
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Marghanita Laski
ML
went on to write several literary biographies: Jane Austen
and Her World (1969), and George Eliot
and Her World (1973), as well as her late biography of Kipling The work on Austen includes 137...
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Eliza Lynn Linton
ELL
's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden
: titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens
, Thackeray
, George Eliot
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Olivia Manning
After her return to England she sometimes wrote for the BBC
(with which her husband was now a producer), providing scripts for the long-running serial Mrs. Dale's Diary, one number in the series A...
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Lettice Cooper
LC
wrote for the British Council
a little book on George Eliot
as one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News, also known as the Writers and Their Work series.
British Book News. British Council.
(1951): 673
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Henry James
Although HJ
is best remembered as a novelist, he was also a prolific and insightful critic of literature and the arts. Over the course of his career he reviewed many novels by British women writers...
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Edith J. Simcox
At the urgings of her publisher, Nikolaus Trübner
, EJS
began translating German idealist philosopher Eduard von Hartmann
's Philosophy of the Unconscious. She abandoned her plans upon discovering that her publication would not...
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Patricia Beer
PB
's Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and George Eliot was a harbinger of serious critical interest in the women's literary tradition.
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research, 1985.
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Q. D. Leavis
Here QDL
highlights Oliphant's anti-sentimental, critical view of Victorian county town insitutions and relations, and the comparatively independent, ironic attitude of the unstereotypical heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks (large, strong, unsentimental, insubordinate to men and with...
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Michelene Wandor
MW
has specialized in adapting and abridging novels for radio. Between 1980 and 2004 she adapted a wide array of fiction by women writers, including works by Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
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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
