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As with Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
- George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes (/ ˈ l uː ɪ s / ⓘ; 18 April 1817 – 30...
- Middlemarch
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by...
- Silas Marner
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by...
- Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Nuneaton (/ n ə ˈ n iː t ən / nə-NEE-tən) is a market town...
- The Mill on The Floss
The Mill on the Floss is a novel by English author George...
- Adam Bede
Adam Bede was the first novel by English author George...
- George Henry Lewes
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May 30, 2024 · George Eliot (born November 22, 1819, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England—died December 22, 1880, London) was an English Victorian novelist who developed the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction.
- George Eliot was an English Victorian novelist known for the psychological depth of her characters and her descriptions of English rural life. Her...
- In 1851 Mary Ann Evans moved to London hoping to become a freelance writer. She worked as a subeditor at The Westminster Review, wrote essays, and...
- George Eliot lived with George Henry Lewes, a journalist who encouraged her career, from 1851 until his death in 1878. They were unable to get marr...
Nov 19, 2019 · George Eliot: The genius who scandalised society. On the 200th anniversary of George Eliot’s birth, Hephzibah Anderson explores how the author was as revolutionary in life as in her novel...
Because writing was considered a male profession, Eliot chose a male pseudonym, George Eliot. Under the pen name, Eliot published her first collection of short stories in 1858, bringing immediate acclaim from critics as prestigious as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
George Eliot is widely recognized as one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century; yet her two volumes of poetry are often ignored in modern critical assessments. Like so many of her contemporaries, Eliot tried to make significant literary contributions in more than one genre; her…
May 3, 2024 · Celebrated by Virginia Woolf as the author of “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,” George Eliot was a pioneer in women’s fiction and a veritable polymath. May 3, 2024 • By Catherine Dent, MA 20th and 21st Century Literary Studies, BA English Literature.