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Eliot, George

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English novelist. Her works include the pastoral Adam Bede (1859); The Mill on the Floss (1860), with its autobiographical elements; Silas Marner (1861), containing elements of the folk tale; and Daniel Deronda (1876). Middlemarch , published serially (1871–72), is considered her greatest novel for its confident handling of numerous characters and central social and moral issues. She developed a subtle psychological presentation of character, and her work is pervaded by a penetrating and compassionate intelligence. Born in Astley, Warwickshire, George Eliot had a strict evangelical upbringing. In 1841 she was converted to free thought . As assistant editor of the Westminster Review under John Chapman from 1851 to 1853, she made the acquaintance of the writers and thinkers Thomas Carlyle , Harriet Martineau , Herbert Spencer , and the philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes . Lewes was married but separated from his wife, and from 1854 he and Eliot lived together in a relationship…
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Full text Article Eliot, George (pseud. of Mary Ann, later Marian, Evans)

From Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
Eliot is now indubitably the most highly regarded 19th-c. woman writer. Her work was highly acclaimed in her own lifetime, but went out of fashion toward the end of the Victorian period and only commenced on the road to critical recovery with the publication in 1948 of F. R. LEAVIS ’s highly…
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Full text Article Eliot, George [pseud. of Mary Anne Evans]

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
English novelist. Born in Warwickshire, where her father was agent to a large landowner, she spent five years at local boarding schools and from 1832 to 1835 went to school at Coventry. She showed early intellectual prowess, was a talented musician and, at this stage, deeply religious. After her…
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Full text Article Eliot, George

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Full text Article George Eliot (1819–1880)

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. Letter, 1857 Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. Middlemarch bk 8, ‘Finale’ The happiest women, like the…
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Full text Article REPUTATION

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Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things. BURNEY, Fanny Evelina (1778). Never wear artistic jewellery; it ruins a woman’s reputation. COLETTE Gigi (1944). …
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Full text Article SEPARATION

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I am shut out of mine own heart because my love is far from me. BRENNAN, Christopher ‘ I Am Shut Out of Mine Own Heart ’ (1914). Absence is to love what the wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it kindles the great. BUSSY-RABUTIN, Comte de Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules (1665). …
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Full text Article CHARACTER

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‘Character’, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms – ‘character is destiny.’ ELIOT, George The Mill on the Floss (1860). Every uniform corrupts one’s character. FRISCH, Max Diary , 1948. Tale... …
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Full text Article COMPASSION

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Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. THE BIBLE ; Matthew, 5:7. Then gently scan your brother man,Still gentler sister woman;Tho’ they may gang a kennin wrang,To step aside is human. BURNS, Robert ‘ Address to the Unco Guid ’ (1786). Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the…
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Full text Article DOGS

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You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. BEERBOHM, Sir Max Zuleika Dobson (1911). It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the white rhino – six of them left in the…
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Full text Article IMAGINATION

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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. AUSTEN, Jane Pride and Prejudice (1813). Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. BACALL, Lauren Lauren Bacall, By Myself . …
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