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	George Eliot - Books and Biography
		George Eliot (1819-1880) was born in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire.
		Eliot did not inform her close friends Caroline and Sarah Hennell about her decision to live with Lewes - the both friends were shocked and angry because she had not trusted them.
		Eliot's first collection of tales, SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, appeared in 1858 under the pseudonym George Eliot - in those days writing was considered to be a male profession.
	www.readprint.com /author-35/George-Eliot (1243 words)

	"George Eliot" by Virginia Woolf
		George Eliot was the pseudonym of novelist, translator, and religious writer Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880).
		George Eliot was not charming; she was not strongly feminine; she had none of those eccentricities and inequalities of temper which give to so many artists the endearing simplicity of children.
		George Eliot had far too strong an intelligence to tamper with those facts, and too broad a humour to mitigate the truth because it was a stern one.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/woolf/VW-Eliot.html (2905 words)

	George Eliot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eliot's relationship with Lewes gave her the encouragement and stability she needed to write fiction and ease her self-doubts, but it would take time before they were accepted into polite society.
		Eliot did not, however, confine herself to her bucolic roots.
		Eliot's sentence structures are clear, patient, and well balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Eliot (2654 words)

	George Eliot Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of the most important writers of European fiction.
		The plot was drawn from a reminiscence of Eliot's aunt, a Methodist preacher, whom she idealized as a character in the novel.
		The main strand of its complex plot is the familiar Eliot tale of a girl's awakening to the complexities of life and her formulation of a humanistic substitute for religion as a guide for her conduct.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/george-eliot (1350 words)

	George Eliot - Biography and Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		George Eliot (1819-1880) is regarded as one of the greatest Victorian novelists, especially noted for her insightful psychological characterization.
		Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) was born in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire.
		She became the center of a literary circle, one of whose members was George Henry Lewes, who would be her companion until his death in 1878.
	www.online-literature.com /george_eliot (624 words)

	George Eliot Collection
		Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, George Eliot was the daughter of a land agent who managed estates in the rural midlands, a formative experience that gave her an insight into country society that later greatly influenced and enriched her first works of fiction.
		Eliot was brought up in a narrow religious tradition, and at school she became a convert of Evangelicalism.
		Additional George Eliot letters in the Ransom Center are located in two bound collections of manuscript letters, Hanley II D555 Ef, vol.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/eliot.html (812 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Daniel Deronda \| Essays + Interviews \| Ahead of her time: George Eliot
		She found her physical and mental match in George Henry Lewes, a critic, philosopher, and actor, whom friends referred to alternatively as "Ape" and "the ugliest man in London." The two moved quickly from colleagues to friends to live-in lovers.
		Eliot's first novel, the tragic love story Adam Bede (1859), in which she modeled the title character on her father, was a popular and critical success, prompting speculation about the author's true identity.
		In her will, Eliot expressed her wish to be buried in Westminster Abbey, but the dean refused, saying Eliot had not lived by the rules of the church.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/deronda/ei_eliot.html (1744 words)

	Middlemarch - George Eliot
		Eliot speaks of "later-born Theresas", and the book proper then begins with young Dorothea Brooke -- the Theresa-like figure whose epic life is, one imagines, surely to dominate the narrative.
		Eliot noticeably describes him often, perhaps never quite sure herself of who she means him to be.
		George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans Cross) was born 22 November 1819 and died 22 December 1880.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/eliotg/mmarch.htm (2045 words)

	George Eliot, 1857-1876: A Biographical Introduction
		Like George Meredith, "she is the embodiment of philosophy in fiction," as Oscar Wilde remarked in 1897.
		Virginia Wolfe called Eliot's Middlemarch "one of the few English novels for grown-up people." Mary Ann Evans was twelve at the time of the Great Reform Bill (1832), which forms the historical context of Middlemarch.
		Mary Ann Evans, born in 1819 at Arbory Park ("Griff") in Astley near Coventry, was the gifted daughter of Robert Evans, the Warwickshire estate agent for the Earl of Lonsdale and the model for such yeoman characters as Adam Bede (which was Charles Dickens's nickname for the novelist from 1859).
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/eliot/pva92.html (820 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of George Eliot
		George Eliot was the pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans.
		In 1858, George Eliot's second novel, Adam Bede, became a critical and popular success; soon after, George Eliot's identity as Mary Anne "Lewes" became known.
		Encouraged by her success, Eliot began exploring continental and political themes in her next works: Romola (1863), which was set in Renaissance Italy, and Felix Holt, The Radical (1866), which depicted the political controversy surrounding the Reform Bill of 1832.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_george_eliot.html (703 words)

	George Eliot
		The Fellowship's annual programme includes a programme of Readings from George Eliot's novels, essays and letters, wreath-laying ceremonies in the George Eliot Memorial Gardens, Nuneaton and in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, a George Eliot Memorial Lecture and a Birthday Luncheon in November on the Sunday nearest to her birthday.
		The George Eliot Fellowship was founded in Nuneaton in 1930 and has a membership of approximately 600 in 20 different countries.
		In 1986, as a result of a public appeal, they were responsible for the erection of a bronze statue of George Eliot by the Warwickshire sculptor, John Letts, in the centre of her native Nuneaton.
	www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp /~matsuoka/Eliot.html (889 words)

	Amazon.com: George Eliot: A Life: Books: Rosemary Ashton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		George Eliot, née Marian Evans, was born before her time; a liberated woman and an agnostic in the sexually repressive and pious Victorian era, Eliot has long been a favorite of modern feminist critics.
		Though Eliot was unconventional enough to enter into a series of sexual relationships without benefit of marriage, her choice of men was curiously traditional, illustrated by her attraction to George Lewes, a man several years her senior who loved her, protected her, bolstered her ego, and managed her affairs.
		Ashton follows Eliot's development from journalist and translator to a writer of imaginative fiction, in the process providing glimpses of Eliot's personality, how the public and critics responded to her and to her individual works, and the encouragement and supportiveness of her long-time companion, George Lewes.
	www.amazon.com /George-Eliot-Life-Rosemary-Ashton/dp/0140242910 (869 words)

	Eliot, George - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Throughout his life Lewes encouraged Evans in her literary career; indeed, it is possible that without him Evans, subject to periods of depression and in constant need of reassurance, would not have written a word.
		Writing about life in small rural towns, George Eliot was primarily concerned with the responsibility that people assume for their lives and with the moral choices they must inevitably make.
		Fred Vincy and the unravelling of 'Middlemarch.' (by George Eliot)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-eliot-g1e.html (588 words)

	George Eliot at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Anne or Marian Evans, captured life with a sensitivity that encompassed an understanding of human behaviour and relationships.
		Eliot's relationship with Lewes was controversial and due to circumstances surrounding his divorce she was never able to marry him.
		George Eliot - a biography -- a comprehensible biography on G. Eliot with analysis of her works
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/EliotGeo (517 words)

	George Eliot
		Eliot's first work was Scenes of Clerical Life, a set of unconnected novellas set in the countryside (much resembling Warwickshire) each involving a man of the cloth, though not necessarily in his professional capacities.
		There are two problems with this criticism: the first is that it implies that Eliot was under some sort of obligation to produce feminist works, which of course she was not; and the second is that is superimposes modern ideas of feminism on a 19th-century writer.
		Finally, in considering Eliot's feminism or lack thereof, it is important to bear in mind that many 19th-century proto-feminists believed that there was an essential feminine nature, and that they valued that nature and believed it was necessary for civilization.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~ulrich/RHE309/vicfembios/georgeeliot.htm (1344 words)

	George Eliot
		Her liaison with married writer and editor George Henry Lewes arose against a background of strict Victorian Puritanism and slowed her progress toward literary fame.
		Eliot's other major works include The Mill on the Floss (1860), a story of destructive family relations, and Silas Marner (1861).
		George Eliot died of a kidney ailment on December 22, only seven months later.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-112203-Eliot.html (712 words)

	George Eliot
		Among the few letters of George Eliot which have been printed since her death, there are two or three addressed to a German critic, Professor Kaufmann, who had written a generous review of Daniel Deronda, and sent the authoress a copy of it.
		On the other hand, George Eliot's still dormant faculties were roused and stimulated to the utmost by the man to whom this union with her formed the most memorable year of his life.
		If George Eliot's work in literature is of the highest, so, too, is her place as a friend and helper among men.
	www.female-ancestors.com /daughters/eliot.htm (5394 words)

	Victorian Women Writers Project
		George Eliot, contemplative, observant, instinctively conservative, her imagination dearly loving to do "a little Toryism on the sly," is as yet the sole outcome of the modern positive spirit in imaginative literature--the sole novelist
		George Eliot's estimate of Margaret Fuller (for there can be little doubt that it is hers) possesses too rare an interest for readers not to be given here in her own apposite and pungent words: "We are at a loss whether to regard her as the parent or child of New England Transcendentalism.
		To ignore this stage in George Eliot's mental development would be to lose one of the connecting links in her history: a history by no means smooth and uneventful, as some times superficially represented, but full of strong contrasts, abrupt transitions, outward and inward changes sympathetically charged with all the meaning of this transitional time.
	www.indiana.edu /~letrs/vwwp/blind/geoeliot.html (17239 words)

	Amazon.com: Silas Marner (Bantam Classics): Books: George Eliot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With the publication of SILAS MARNER in 1861, George Eliot countered the rise of what she saw as the patently false view of life that the conventional pastoral engendered.
		George Eliot may be focusing on a particular character in this novel but she doesn't neglect the suitable etching of other characters.
		George Eliot's language in this book is typically idyllic with a stunning coupling of narration and dialogue,the former being personal as well as philosophical and the latter neither lofty nor mundane but in essence commonplace and genuine.
	www.amazon.com /Silas-Marner-Bantam-Classics-George/dp/055321229X (2880 words)

	George Eliot
		George Eliot became known to the world in her succeeding novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1863), and Daniel Deronda (1876).
		Eliot was an Agnostic, declaring "The old religion said 'Heaven help us!' Our new one, from its very lack of that faith in a heaven, will teach us all the more to help one another."
		Lewes's Christian name, and Eliot was a good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word." However, some speculated that the first part is true, and the surname arose also from her "muse": "to L (Lewes) I owe it" = Eliot.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/1122almanac.htm (709 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Eliot, George
		In 1859, Adam Bede was attacked as the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" and withdrawn from libraries, but by the end of her life she was recognised as the greatest living English novelist, particularly admired by Turgenev and Henry James (and Queen Victoria).
		Though Eliot was influenced by Goethe, her forebears tend to be cultural rather than novelistic: she admired Thomas Carlyle ("there is hardly an active mind of this generation that has not been modified by Carlyle's writings") and Ruskin, while Middlemarch shows the influence of new Darwinian ideas about evolution.
		Her letters and edited journals have been published; the massive George Eliot: Voice of a Century by Frederick Robert Karl (1995) situates Eliot within Victorian society.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-63,00.html (305 words)

	George Eliot: Biography
		In June of 1856, Mary Anne and George moved to Tenby on the coast of South Whales.
		Eventually Blackwood did publish the novel with George Eliot appearing on the title page, and when the book came out, it was a success despite all the worry about the controversial nature of Mary Anne's relationship with Lewes.
		She resented the fact that she was seen as a violator of the marriage vow while George's unfaithful wife, Agnes, appeared a long-suffering victim (Haight, GEB 338).
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /collections/projects/eliot/middlemarch/bio.html (3799 words)

	BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire Features - George Eliot photograph archive
		We have photographs of her birthplace, some of the houses she lived in and some of the schools she attended in the area.
		George Eliot was born to an estate worker in Arbury Park, Warwickshire, on 22 November 1819.
		Her first novel Scenes of a Clerical Life was published in 1857 under the name of George Eliot.
	www.bbc.co.uk /coventry/features/george-eliot/george-eliot-photograph-archive.shtml (447 words)

	George Eliot - Free Online Library
		George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, who was born in Warwickshire, England in 1819.
		There she met George Henry Lewes, a married man at the time, who would be her companion until his death in 1878.
		She left behind her a legacy as a humane freethinker, and the author of novels that paved the way for modern character portrayals.
	eliot.thefreelibrary.com (522 words)

	ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre \| Middlemarch \| George Eliot : A Brief Biography
		George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans on November 22, 1819, in Warwickshire, England.
		Because of legal and financial restrictions, however, Lewes was unable to obtain a divorce, and he and Eliot were much criticized for living together.
		Because she had not lived by the rules of the church, her body was forbidden burial in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/archive/programs/middlemarch/tg_biography.html (570 words)

	George Eliot - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		It was he who encouraged her to turn from philosophy and journalism to fiction, and during those years, under the name of George Eliot, she wrote Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede,, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, as well as numerous essays, articles and reviews.
		George Eliot died in 1880, only a few months after marrying J. Cross, an old friend and admirer, who became her first biographer.
		George Eliot combined a formidable intelligence with imaginative sympathy and acute powers of observation, and became one of the greatest and most influential of English novelists.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000010151,00.html (328 words)

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