"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), and ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype"
"The Lifted Veil (novella) The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, ""The Lifted Veil"" explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Robert Louis Stevenson's ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" (1886), and Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897). The unreliable narrator, Latimer, believes that he is cursed with an otherworldly ability"
"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"
"subsequently used as the frontispiece for Chapman & Hall's one-volume ""seventh edition"", issued in 1864. Beside the Chapman & Hall editions, the novel was published in 1863 by Harper in New York, and by Tauchnitz in Leipzig. A Russian translation was published in St. Petersburg in 1864, and a French translation by Hachette of Paris in 1869; both of these translations bore the title ""Rachel Ray"". More recently, editions of the novel have been released by Dover Publications in 1980; by Arno in 1981; by the Trollope Society in 1990; and by Oxford University Press in 2008. George Eliot was"
"the dead back to life, Eliot manages this scene with impressive style and force. She handles Latimer's vision sequences with a similar drive and attention to detail. This tale departs from Eliot's usual technique. Latimer's first-person narrative works with causality and chronology, with the narrative ending where it begins. It is Eliot's only venture into what would later be called science fiction. In 1948 the story was adapted for an episode of the syndicated radio program ""The Weird Circle"". The Lifted Veil (novella) The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic"
"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"
"""George Eliot"", called ""The Scarlet Letter"", along with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 book-length poem ""The Song of Hiawatha"", the ""two most indigenous and masterly productions in American literature"". Most literary critics praised the book but religious leaders took issue with the novel's subject matter. Orestes Brownson complained that Hawthorne did not understand Christianity, confession, and remorse. A review in ""The Church Review and Ecclesiastical Register"" concluded the author ""perpetrates bad morals."" On the other hand, 20th-century writer D. H. Lawrence said that there could not be a more perfect work of the American imagination than ""The Scarlet Letter"". Henry James"
"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"
"In 1927, Eliot was asked by his employer, Geoffrey Faber, one of the partners in Faber & Gwyer, to write one poem each year for a series of illustrated pamphlets with holiday themes to be sent to the firms clients and business acquaintances as Christmas greetings. This series, called the ""Ariel Series"", would release 38 pamphlets from a selection of English writers and poets from 1927 through 1931. The first poem that Eliot wrote, ""Journey of the Magi"", was released as the eighth in the series in August 1927. Eliot would follow with four more poems: ""A Song for Simeon"""
"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 Minister's Wooing The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published in 1859. Set in 18th-century New England, the novel explores New England history, highlights the issue of slavery, and critiques the Calvinist theology in which Stowe was raised. Due to similarities in setting, comparisons are often drawn between this work and Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850). However, in contrast to Hawthorne's ""The Scarlett Letter"", ""The Minister's Wooing"" is a ""sentimental romance""; its central plot revolves around courtship and marriage. Moreover, Stowe's exploration of the regional history of New England deals primarily with the"
"Adam Bede Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since and is used in university studies of 19th-century English literature. According to ""The Oxford Companion to English Literature"" (1967), The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love ""rectangle"" among beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel;"
"fallen in love with Dariel, follows her to the East. But Imar's twin-sister Marva, Queen of the Ossets, who is appropriately called by the natives ""the Bride of the Devil"", plans to kill Prince Imar and wed his daughter Dariel to her son. After weeks of travelling and days full of desperate adventure, George, with the help of miners and Lesghians, rescues Dariel and her father and kills the wicked Princess and her fiendish son. ""Dariel"" was first serialised in ""Blackwood's Magazine"" from October 1896 to October 1897, and then published in one volume in 1897. It was the only"
"Miss Prissy is right and Mary should be with the man that she loves, so he calls off the wedding. The Minister's Wooing The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published in 1859. Set in 18th-century New England, the novel explores New England history, highlights the issue of slavery, and critiques the Calvinist theology in which Stowe was raised. Due to similarities in setting, comparisons are often drawn between this work and Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850). However, in contrast to Hawthorne's ""The Scarlett Letter"", ""The Minister's Wooing"" is a ""sentimental romance""; its central"
"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""."
"George Eliot. There were also three major female poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson. In the twentieth century there were also many major female writers, including Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Marianne Moore. Notable female writers in France include Colette and Simone de Beauvoir; and in Russia, Anna Akhmatova. Much of the early period of feminist literary scholarship was given over to the rediscovery and reclamation of texts written by women. Virago Press began to publish its large list of 19th and early 20th-century novels in 1975 and became one of the first"
"The Painted Veil (novel) The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet, which begins ""Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life"". The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of ""Cosmopolitan"" (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised in the United Kingdom in eight parts in ""Nash's Magazine"". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital."
"in August 1928, ""Animula"" in October 1929, ""Marina"" in September 1930, and ""Triumphal March"" in October 1931. Four of Eliot's five ""Ariel"" poems, including ""Journey of the Magi"", were accompanied by illustrations by American-born avant garde artist, E. McKnight Kauffer. Faber & Gwyer, Ltd., printed the ""Journey of the Magi"" in a 7¼"" × 4 ¾"", Octavo (8vo) pamphlet ""line block in black with brown and grey; casing, thin card covered with yellow laid paper."" The font of the cover and poem text was ""Imprint"" created by Gerard Meynell & J. H. Mason in 1913 for the printing trade magazine"
"Scenes of Clerical Life Scenes of Clerical Life is the title under which George Eliot's first published work of fiction, a collection of three short stories, was released in book form; it was the first of her works to be released under her famous pseudonym. The stories were first published in ""Blackwood's Magazine"" over the course of the year 1857, initially anonymously, before being released as a two-volume set by Blackwood and Sons in January 1858. The three stories are set during the last twenty years of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century over a"
"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"
"""The Golden Goblet"" was retroactively named a Newbery Honor book when the award for runners-up to the Newbery Medal was initiated in the year 1971. The Golden Goblet The Golden Goblet is a children's historical novel by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. It was first published in 1961 and received a Newbery Honor award in 1962. The novel is set in ancient Egypt around 1400 B.C., and tells the story of a young Egyptian boy named Ranofer who tries to reveal an evil crime and reshape his life. Ranofer is an orphaned 12-year-old boy whose mother had died at birth. Ranofer had"
"7 and BBC Radio 4 Extra in a fifteen-part version of 15-minute episodes. Adam Bede Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since and is used in university studies of 19th-century English literature. According to ""The Oxford Companion to English Literature"" (1967), The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799."
"down of an ardent Royalist. ""A Galahad of the Creeks"" was set during the Burmese wars. ""The Chevalier d'Auriac"" concerned Henry of Navarre. Other tales were set in swashbuckling Europe. ""Orrain: A Romance"", published by Methuen in London and by Longmans in the United States, told a tale of King Henry II of France and his wife Catherine de' Medici."" The Chevalier d'Auriac"" was serialized in Longman's Magazine in 1897. Levett's best-known book was ""The Honour of Savelli"", a tale of treachery and intrigue set during the era of the Borgias in medieval Italy. The work, noted a review in"
"earliest stories. Although it contains the earliest written stories in the series, they were not collected in book form until four years after the chronologically later stories in ""The Case of Miss Elliott"" (1905). The last book in the series is the much later ""Unravelled Knots"" (1925). The Old Man relies mostly upon sensationalistic newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit, and relates all this while tying complicated knots in a piece of string. The plots themselves are typical of Edwardian crime fiction, resting on a foundation of unhappy marriages and the inequitable division of family property. Other period details"
"with ""The Castle of Otranto"" by Horace Walpole, with which it has often been printed. The first edition under the title of ""The Old English Baron"" was dedicated to the daughter of Samuel Richardson, who is said to have helped Reeve revise and correct the novel. The novel noticeably influenced Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"". Reeve also wrote the epistolary novel ""The School for Widows"" (1791). Her innovative history of prose fiction, ""The Progress of Romance"" (1785), can be regarded generally as a precursor to modern histories of the novel and specifically as upholding the tradition of female literary history heralded by"
"Romola Romola (1862–63) is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is ""a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view"". The story takes place amidst actual historical events during the Italian Renaissance, and includes in its plot several notable figures from Florentine history. The novel first appeared in fourteen parts published in ""Cornhill Magazine"" from July 1862 (vol. 6, no. 31) to August 1863 (vol. 8, no. 44), and was first published as a book, in three volumes, by Smith, Elder & Co."
"the Woolfs lived, lending its name to the publishing company they founded. In July they published their first text, a book with one story written by Leonard and the other written by Virginia. Between 1917 and 1946 the Press published 527 titles. Hogarth Press has begun producing a series of modern retellings of William Shakespeare plays, for which it has hired a variety of authors, such as Jeanette Winterson, Howard Jacobson, Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood, Tracy Chevalier and Edward St Aubyn for ""The Winter's Tale"", ""The Merchant of Venice"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""The Tempest"", ""Othello"" and ""King Lear"""
"by earlier writers Lancelot Andrewes and Matthew Arnold. In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer, Ltd., after a career in banking, and subsequent to the success of his earlier poems, including ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" (1915), ""Gerontion"" (1920) and ""The Waste Land"" (1922). In these years, Eliot gravitated away from his Unitarian upbringing and began to embrace the Church of England. He was baptised into the Anglican faith on 29 June 1927 at Finstock, in Oxfordshire, and was confirmed the following day in the private chapel of Thomas"
"Middlemarch Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), first published in eight instalments (volumes) in 1871–72. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32, and follows several distinct, intersecting stories with a large cast of characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Despite comic elements, ""Middlemarch"" is a work of realism encompassing historical events: the 1832 Reform Act, the beginnings of the railways, and the death of King George IV and succession"
"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,"
"Bulkington village following residential building expansion which began in the 1930s. Historically the main industry in Bulkington was ribbon weaving. Today Bulkington is largely a commuter village for larger nearby urban centres such as Coventry, Nuneaton, Bedworth, Hinckley and Leicester. Bulkington has connections with the locally born author George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), who knew the village well. She is thought to have referred to it as ""Raveloe"" in her book ""Silas Marner"" (1861). The church of St James is where George Eliot's uncle and aunt are buried. The early history of Bulkington can be traced in Domesday Book where"
"video blog.. The opening lyrics of the song ""How Soon is Now?"" by The Smiths were adapted from ""Middlemarch"" (""I am the son and heir, of nothing in particular""). Middlemarch Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), first published in eight instalments (volumes) in 1871–72. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32, and follows several distinct, intersecting stories with a large cast of characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Despite"
"first produced in 1835. A short story, 'Ginevra or The Old Oak Chest: A Christmas Story' by Susan E Wallace published in 1887 and another short story ""The Romance of Certain Old Clothes"" by Henry James published in 1868. The song is also played in Thomas Hardy's ""A Laodicean"", after the scene involving the capture of George Somerset's handkerchief from the tower. Kate Mosse reinterpreted the story in her 2013 short story collection ""The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales"". Film versions of the story include a 1904 production by the Clarendon Film Company, directed by Percy Stow; a 1923"