"literary work ever written. In 2015, writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels ""by a landslide"". The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public. George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72),"
"Newdegate Square, and the Gold Belt. Many locations in George Eliot's works were based on places in or near her native Nuneaton, including: The borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth is twinned with the following towns: Within the borough boundaries: Outside the borough boundaries but often considered to be part of the town: Nuneaton Nuneaton () is a town in northern Warwickshire, England. The population in 2011 was 86,552, making it the largest town in Warwickshire. The author George Eliot was born on a farm on the Arbury Estate just outside Nuneaton in 1819 and lived in the town for much"
"The Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss at its junction with the more minor River Ripple near the village of St Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. The river and the village are fictional. The novel begins in"
"Dinah Morris Dinah Morris is a major character in George Eliot's novel ""Adam Bede"" (1859); a Methodist lay preacher, she was modelled on Eliot's aunt Elizabeth Evans. Dinah visits the fictional community of Hayslope — a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. She says to Lisbeth Bede in Chapter Ten, ""I work in the cotton-mill when I am at home."" She lives thirty miles away in the fictional Snowfield, in the fictional Stonyshire County. She is a cousin by marriage of Hetty Sorrel, and related to the Poysers. Rachel Poyser is her aunt, and wishes Dinah would stayed with"
"George Eliot's character Tom Tulliver in ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), all refer to the line ""My Name is Norval"". Young George Osborne recites it, eliciting tears from his aunt, in Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair."" I1847-48) p. 504. Harry Walmers in Dickens' ""The Boots at the Holly Tree Inn"" also refers to it: There is also another reference to Norval in ""Nicholas Nickleby"", when Wackford Squeers, while in custody, refers to his son as ""a young Norval"", supposedly the darling of the town. Rev. George B. Cheever, American divine and abolitionist, references it in his 1857 broadside ""God Against Slavery""."
"the cartographer and Fellow of the Royal Society Henry Beighton best known for his map of Warwickshire (1727/8). Griff House Griff House is the childhood home of George Eliot, on the road to Coventry, south of Nuneaton, where Eliot (as Mary Ann Evans) lived from the age of 1 to 21. The building, off the Griff Roundabout on the A444 is now the Griff House Beefeater & Nuneaton Premier Travel Inn on Coventry Road, Nuneaton (CV10 7PJ). The Griff Farm buildings, which Mary's father Robert Evans farmed, are now divided by a wall from Griff House. The George Eliot Fellowship"
"Arbury Hall Arbury Hall () is a Grade I listed country house in Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England, and the ancestral home of the Newdigate family, later the Newdigate-Newdegate and Fitzroy-Newdegate families. The hall is built on the site of the former Arbury Priory in a mixture of Tudor and 18th-century Gothic Revival architecture, the latter being the work of Sir Roger Newdigate from designs by Henry Keene. The hall is set in of parkland. The 19th-century author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) was born on one of the estate farms in 1819, the daughter of the estate's land agent. She"
"with regard to women writers, as a synonym for minor writing. Other writers that have been characterized as regional novelists, are the Brontë sisters from West Yorkshire. In 1904, novelist Virginia Woolf visited their birthplace Haworth and published an account in ""The Guardian"" on 21 December. She remarked on the symbiosis between the village and the Brontë sisters. She wrote: ""Haworth expresses the Brontës; the Brontës express Haworth; they fit like a snail to its shell"". Mary Webb (1881–1927), Margiad Evans (1909–1958) and Geraint Goodwin (1903–1942), are associate with the Welsh border region. George Eliot (1801–1886), on the other hand,"
"to the hand loom weaving. There is also a version called the Oldham Weaver in Mary Barton, by Mrs Gaskell in 1848. Bibliography Four Loom Weaver Four Loom Weaver (Roud 1460), probably derived from ""The Poor Cotton Weaver"" is a 19th-century English lament on starvation. One source also names it Jone o Grinfilt though this title usually refers to different lyrics and score, which is about the naiveté of country folk. Actually, it is very similar to Jone o'Grinfilt Junior which can be found in John Harland's ""Ballads and Songs of Lancashire"" (1875 pp. 169–171). According to Axon website (Axon)"
"writers of the Victorian era. The George Eliot School The George Eliot School is a mixed secondary school located in Nuneaton in the English county of Warwickshire. The school was established in September 1961, and became a foundation school in September 2009 in partnership with North Warwickshire and Hinckley College. In September 2011 the school converted to academy status and is now part of the Midland Academies Trust. The school is named after George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819 – 1880). Evans was novelist, journalist and translator who was born in Nuneaton, and is considered to"
"The George Eliot School The George Eliot School is a mixed secondary school located in Nuneaton in the English county of Warwickshire. The school was established in September 1961, and became a foundation school in September 2009 in partnership with North Warwickshire and Hinckley College. In September 2011 the school converted to academy status and is now part of the Midland Academies Trust. The school is named after George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819 – 1880). Evans was novelist, journalist and translator who was born in Nuneaton, and is considered to be one of the leading"
"Four Loom Weaver Four Loom Weaver (Roud 1460), probably derived from ""The Poor Cotton Weaver"" is a 19th-century English lament on starvation. One source also names it Jone o Grinfilt though this title usually refers to different lyrics and score, which is about the naiveté of country folk. Actually, it is very similar to Jone o'Grinfilt Junior which can be found in John Harland's ""Ballads and Songs of Lancashire"" (1875 pp. 169–171). According to Axon website (Axon) Jone o Grinfilt was written by Joseph Lees of Glodwick, near Oldham in the 1790s. The earlier version, the Poor Cotton Weaver, was"
"well-known author was children's writer Arthur Ransome, who penned the ""Swallows and Amazons"" series. James Herriot, the best selling author of over 60 million copies of books about his experiences of some 50 years as a veterinarian in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, the town which he refers to as Darrowby in his books (although born in Sunderland), has been admired for his easy reading style and interesting characters. Poets include Ted Hughes, W. H. Auden, William Empson, Simon Armitage and Andrew Marvell. Three well known sculptors emerged in the 20th century; contemporaries Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and Leeds-raised eco artist"
"textiles in 1953, and the Title ‘Richard Haworth’ subsequently purchased by the Ruia Group. The company, Richard Haworth, continues to manufacture and distribute textiles out of Kearsley Mill in Greater Manchester. Born in March 1820, Richard was the youngest of eight children of George Haworth and his wife. He attended school until, at the age of seven, his father died and by the age of thirteen he secured a full-time job at Messrs Openshaw & Co of Bury, spinners and fustian manufacturers. One day whilst brushing a loom he injured his hand badly when it became caught in the machinery."
"as 124 and the total population as 587 persons. At this period the villagers were mostly cotton handloom weavers. The only remaining woollen weaver was William AIgie, assisted by his seven children, three of whom wove woollen cloth, and four of whom worked in cotton. Two elderly women, Mary Sinclair, a muslin flowerer, and Margaret Wotherspoon, a muslin tambourer, were probably the last of the skilled embroideresses in the village. There were also a few shopkeepers, a blacksmith, several brassfounders and tinsmiths and William Ferguson, a lithographic engraver. By 1851 the population had risen sharply to 939 persons. The rise"
"Nuneaton Nuneaton () is a town in northern Warwickshire, England. The population in 2011 was 86,552, making it the largest town in Warwickshire. The author George Eliot was born on a farm on the Arbury Estate just outside Nuneaton in 1819 and lived in the town for much of her early life. Her novel ""Scenes of Clerical Life"" (1858) depicts Nuneaton. The Nuneaton built-up area, incorporating Nuneaton and the surrounding urban settlements, including the large villages of Hartshill and Bulkington, had a population of 92,968 at the 2011 census. Nuneaton is north of Coventry, east of Birmingham and northwest of"
"Griff, Warwickshire Griff is a hamlet in the English county of Warwickshire. Griff is located on the A444 road between the towns of Nuneaton and Bedworth and is administered as part of Nuneaton and Bedworth district. Formerly a coal mining area there is evidence that coal was obtained from Griff from as early as the twelfth century. Nowadays Griff Quarry is a major enterprise producing around of material annually. Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) was brought up at Griff House, now a hotel. Griff is likely represented in Eliot's novel Middlemarch as ""Frick"", which is described as ""[Mr Solomon's] side"
"serialisation from 2002, had Romola Garai as Gwendolen. Gwendolen Harleth Gwendolen Harleth, later Gwendolen Grandcourt, is a central character in George Eliot's novel ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876). She acts as a foil to Mirah Lapidoth. Gwendolen Harleth is beautiful and wilful, desired by many men, which she revels in. However, her family falls on hard times soon after the novel begins. It becomes the once proud Gwendolen's fate to have to work as a governess in order to support herself and her family. She desperately tries to escape that fate, and explores the possibility of working on the stage as an"
"A Methodist chapel stood where Chapel Farm, by the Queen Adelaide Inn, is now. Dinah Morris (based on George Eliot's aunt, Elizabeth Evans) preached here. Eliot's father Robert was a carpenter at Norbury, and became a land agent here- he moved with his employer to Arbury, where Eliot was born to his second wife. Eliot's own connections with Norbury were slight- """"As to my indebtedness to facts of locale- the details which I knew as facts and have made use of for my picture were gathered from such imperfect allusion and narrative as I heard from my father in his"
"George Ewart Evans George Ewart Evans (1 April 1909 – 11 January 1988) was a Welsh-born schoolteacher, writer and folklorist who became a dedicated collector of oral history and oral tradition in the East Anglian countryside from the 1940s to 1970s, and produced eleven books of collections of these materials. Evans was born in Abercynon, a coal-mining village north of Cardiff, one of a family of eleven, to Welsh-speaking parents who ran a grocery business. Reflecting the Liberal politics of his father, his middle name was inspired by William Ewart Gladstone, and Gladstone became one of his nicknames. As a"
"novel ""The Painted Veil"" by W. Somerset Maugham, the last words of the poem ""An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"", ""The dog it was that died"", are the dying words of bacteriologist Walter Fane, one of the primary characters in the novel. Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He"
"the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket, Suffolk. George Ewart Evans George Ewart Evans (1 April 1909 – 11 January 1988) was a Welsh-born schoolteacher, writer and folklorist who became a dedicated collector of oral history and oral tradition in the East Anglian countryside from the 1940s to 1970s, and produced eleven books of collections of these materials. Evans was born in Abercynon, a coal-mining village north of Cardiff, one of a family of eleven, to Welsh-speaking parents who ran a grocery business. Reflecting the Liberal politics of his father, his middle name was inspired by William Ewart Gladstone,"
"that of the iron mills. It is described as a polluted and oppressive village, inhabited by laborers, mostly “masses of men, with dull, besotted faces bent to the ground, sharpened here and there by pain or cunning; skin and muscle and flesh begrimed with smoke and ashes”. The novella's protagonist is Hugh Wolfe, an iron mill laborer who possesses artistic talent and a spiritual desire for higher forms of pleasure and fulfillment. Despite the hopefulness of Wolfe’s artistic drive, he becomes the story's tragic hero, as his yearning for a better life leads to his imprisonment and ultimate death. Though"
"and reprinted as ""Song"" in ""The Harvard Advocate"", Harvard University's student magazine. He also published three short stories in 1905, ""Birds of Prey"", ""A Tale of a Whale"" and ""The Man Who Was King"". The last mentioned story significantly reflects his exploration of Igorot Village while visiting the 1904 World's Fair of St. Louis. Such a link with primitive people importantly antedates his anthropological studies at Harvard. Eliot lived in St. Louis, Missouri for the first sixteen years of his life at the house on Locust St. where he was born. After going away to school in 1905, he only"
"it was realized that Elizabeth's marriage would mean an end to her translation work, in January 1844 it was decided that Mary Anne Evans (1819–1880) (later known as the novelist George Eliot) would take up the translating where Elizabeth had left off at the time of her marriage (which was about halfway through volume 1 of ""Das Leben Jesu""). Mary Anne had quickly become an integral part of the Rosehill Circle after she met and befriended Charles and Caroline Hennell in November 1841. Somewhat later she became an intimate friend of Elizabeth Brabant as well (Mary Anne served as a"
"each shop. At the time of rapid urbanisation, rows of terraced houses were constructed to accommodate the new urban workers. In East Anglia detached cottages were built from timber and cob, while woollen weaving communities favoured three-storey two-up two-down with a loom shop above. The loomshop design was adequate until power was needed and in a sense the early weaving sheds were extended loom shops. In 1884, Vincent van Gogh made a series of drawings and paintings of rural artisan weavers and the loomshops in their cottages. Van Gogh was interested in the ""meditative appearance"" of the weavers. ""A weaver"
"preaches. In fact, she is sometimes considered to be Eliot's most confident female character. According to Diana Neill, ""The plot [of ""Adam Bede""] is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison."" Dinah's preaching is extremely effective, and persuades the extremely vain Bess to take off her gaudy earrings, although only for a short while. Her resistance to marriage because she is worried that it will curtail her religious teaching, is"
"and song was also said to cause rain. Later on, Laumės were depicted as very beautiful women, who appeared both naked or wearing a very fine clothing. The Rainbow was often called a ribbon lost by Laumės. What's how they were associated with weaving. Laumės usually appeared in groups of three. They were able to do women’s work perfectly, as are especially skilled in weaving and spinning. They love children, respect industriousness and help those in need. They punish those who ridicule them, and those who are lazy. Following are two example folk tales featuring Laumės: A woman was harvesting"
"14, 1932. Elizabeth Boit Elizabeth Eaton Boit (1849–1932) was an American textile manufacturer and philanthropist. It was said that ""the smartest man in Wakefield (Massachusetts) was a Woman"" and this woman was Elizabeth Boit. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts on July 9, 1849. Bolt was the second child out of six daughters and went to school at Lasell Seminary, however rumor had it that she was not very good at mathematics which is ironic considering her later career. At 18, she was a timekeeper at the Dudley Hosiery Knitting Mill. She became forewoman of the sewing department within five"
"Lady Eleanore's Mantle ""Lady Eleanore's Mantle"" is the third legend in the four-part short story ""Legends of the Province-House"" by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. This short story first appeared in ""The United States Democratic Review"" (Dec. 1838, Vol 2. Issue 12), and was later collected in an updated edition of ""Twice-Told Tales"". Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe moves to Boston to live with her distant relative, Colonel Shute. She is known not only for her immense pride but also her magnificently embroidered mantle, which was made by a dying woman and is believed to possess magical qualities. When she arrives in town,"
"Noah Cooke Noah Cooke (born 8 March 1831) was an English poet known as ""The Weaver Poet"". He was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, the son of a journeyman weaver. Cooke followed his father into the weaving industry, and he eventually became a carpet weaver in his home town. At the time, about half of the town's population was connected with the carpet industry. He was also involved in the local trade union. Cooke was encouraged to start writing poetry in the 1850s by his brother-in-law Benjamin Riley, who was a writer. From 1870, Cooke's works appeared frequently in the ""Poet's"
"described in the book, the hitherto unheard of act of buying wool from the farmers on their farms and selling it at market rather than the farmers having to travel to market themselves, saving them time and effort) with the help of Philip, who agrees to buy her wool at a fair price when other merchants refuse to do so, and the two siblings settle in Kingsbridge. The Hamleighs attempt to barricade the quarry against the priory, but Philip foils them by having his monks travel there under cover of darkness and pose as ghosts, scaring off the Hamleighs' men"
"production was filmed at the historic Chatham Dockyard in Kent for exterior street scenes. In 1994, Helen Edmundson adapted the play for the stage, in a production performed by Shared Experience. A radio dramatisation in five one-hour parts was broadcast on BBC7 in 2009. The Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives"