George Eliot (1819–1880)
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George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans on a Warwickshire farm in England, where she spent almost all of her early life. She received a modest local education and was particularly influenced by one of her teachers, an extremely religious woman whom the novelist would later use as a model for various mostra altro characters. Eliot read extensively, and was particularly drawn to the romantic poets and German literature. In 1849, after the death of her father, she went to London and became assistant editor of the Westminster Review, a radical magazine. She soon began publishing sketches of country life in London magazines. At about his time Eliot began her lifelong relationship with George Henry Lewes. A married man, Lewes could not marry Eliot, but they lived together until Lewes's death. Eliot's sketches were well received, and soon after she followed with her first novel, Adam Bede (1859). She took the pen name "George Eliot" because she believed the public would take a male author more seriously. Like all of Eliot's best work, The Mill on the Floss (1860), is based in large part on her own life and her relationship with her brother. In it she begins to explore male-female relations and the way people's personalities determine their relationships with others. She returns to this theme in Silas Mariner (1861), in which she examines the changes brought about in life and personality of a miser through the love of a little girl. In 1863, Eliot published Romola. Set against the political intrigue of Florence, Italy, of the 1490's, the book chronicles the spiritual journey of a passionate young woman. Eliot's greatest achievement is almost certainly Middlemarch (1871). Here she paints her most detailed picture of English country life, and explores most deeply the frustrations of an intelligent woman with no outlet for her aspirations. This novel is now regarded as one of the major works of the Victorian era and one of the greatest works of fiction in English. Eliot's last work was Daniel Deronda. In that work, Daniel, the adopted son of an aristocratic Englishman, gradually becomes interested in Jewish culture and then discovers his own Jewish heritage. He eventually goes to live in Palestine. Because of the way in which she explored character and extended the range of subject matter to include simple country life, Eliot is now considered to be a major figure in the development of the novel. She is buried in Highgate Cemetery, North London, England, next to her common-law husband, George Henry Lewes. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di George Eliot
The Best-Known Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola (1777) 103 copie
Romola / Silas Marner — Autore — 9 copie
Romola (1/3) 9 copie
Romola (3/3) 8 copie
Romola (2/3) 8 copie
Scenes of Clerical Life (2/2) — Autore — 8 copie
George Eliot Six Pack - Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede (2014) 7 copie
Daniel Deronda, Volume 1 of 3 7 copie
[unidentified works] 7 copie
Reading & Training : George Eliot : The mill on the Floss [book + sound recording] (2007) — Writer — 6 copie
Eliot's works 5 copie
Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Essays and Leaves from a Notebook and Poetical Works (1900) 5 copie
Daniel Deronda, Volume 2 of 3 5 copie
Gems from George Eliot 4 copie
Novels of George Eliot 4 copie
The Works of George Eliot: Vol. I - Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Romola; Vol. II -- Middlemarch: A Study of… (1890) 4 copie
Works of George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, The Lifted Veil & more. (mobi) (2008) 3 copie
The Essays of ''George Eliot'' 3 copie
The Mill on the Floss / Romola — Autore — 3 copie
De gitaar van Renaissance tot rock : de klassieke gitaar, de flamencogitaar, de gitaar in Latijns-Amerika,… (1979) 3 copie
Adam Bede | Felix Holt 3 copie
George Eliot: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2013) 3 copie
El molino 3 copie
Scenes From a Clerical Life -- The Life of George Eliot (The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes, Volume 4) (1883) 3 copie
George Eliot's Daniel Deronda: Abridged — Autore — 3 copie
The Complete Works of George Eliot: St. James Edition:; Volume VI:; Middlemarch Part III, Silas Marner, and Daniel… (1908) 3 copie
Miscellaneous Essays ; Impressions of Theophrastus Such ; The Lifted Veil ; Brother Jacob (1901) 2 copie
Masterpieces from George Eliot 2 copie
Middlemarch | Romola 2 copie
The Sad Fortunes of Rev. Amos Barton, Brother Jacob, the Lifted Veil, Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1887) 2 copie
Works 2 copie
Scenes of Clerical Life, Silas Marner, Adam Bede (Harper's Fireside Edition, Volume 1, 1885) 2 copie
Works of George Eliot, Vol. XVII 2 copie
George Eliot's Works: Adam Bede/Daniel Deronda/Felix Holt and Clerical Life/Middlemarch/Mill on the Floss/Romola (6… (1914) 2 copie
Theophrastus Such / The Spanish Gypsy — Autore — 2 copie
The Mill on the Floss / Scenes of Clerical Life — Autore — 2 copie
The George Eliot BBC Radio Drama Collection: Five Full-Cast Dramatisations Including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss… (2020) 2 copie
Đ ł Ơ ư æ 1 copia
Daniel Deronda. Vol II 1 copia
Middlemarch Volume one and two 1 copia
Masterpieces of George Eliot 1 copia
Slias Marner Etc. 1 copia
¤ ¤ ¤ ILLUSTRATED ¤ ¤ ¤ Middlemarch, by George Eliot - NEW Illustrated Classics 2011 Edition (FULLY… 1 copia
Middlemarch. NOVEL (1871) by: George Eliot. (pen name of Mary Ann Evans) ( It was first published in 1871 to 1872.) (2016) 1 copia
Six Pack 1 copia
Romola: A Novel 1 copia
Daniel Deronda, Eliot's works 1 copia
George Elliot Works: 7 books - Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Daniel Deronda, Romola, Impressions of Theophrastus Such...,… (1897) 1 copia
The Mill on the Floss 1 copia
דניאל דירונדה 1 copia
Adam Bede / Theophrastus Such 1 copia
Silas Marner 1 copia
Armgart 1 copia
Brother and Sister Sonnets 1 copia
The Ilfracombe Journal [essay] 1 copia
Middlemarch D. 2 1 copia
Middlemarch D. 1 1 copia
Notes on Form in Art 1 copia
The Antigone and Its Moral 1 copia
Robert Browning's Men and Women 1 copia
Thomas Carlyle [essay] 1 copia
Translations and Translators 1 copia
Middlemarch. Vol.2 1 copia
A Sketch of George Eliot by C Kegan Paul; Essays; Leaves from a Notebook; Poems; Brother Jacob; The Lifted Veil; A… (1885) 1 copia
George Elliot: Selected Works 1 copia
Do You Lose Your Temper? 1 copia
Silas Marner; the Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob; the Impressions of Theophrastus Such & Poems (1920) 1 copia
The Girlhood of Maggie Tulliver 1 copia
George Eliot's Complete Works - Silas Marner/Spanish Gypsy/Complete Poems (Illustrated) (1908) 1 copia
The Complete Works of George Eliot: St. James Edition:; Volume VII:; Daniel Deronda Parts II and III (1908) 1 copia
The Writings of George Eliot Together with the Life of J. W. Cross in Twenty-Five Volumes: Warwickshire Edition (1907) 1 copia
Poems. Clerical Life 1 copia
Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse; Selected From the Works of George Eliot (2012) 1 copia
Essays, Volume II 1 copia
Essays, Volume I 1 copia
The Story of Little Tom and Maggie: from The Mill on the Floss of George Eliot (Famous Children of Literature) (1903) 1 copia
Silas Marner | Poems 1 copia
Gilfil's Love and Other Stories 1 copia
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe — Amos Barton (from Scenes of Clerical Life) — The Lifted Veil 1 copia
Works of George Eliot, Vol. XIV 1 copia
The Complete Works of George Eliot: St. James Edition:; Volume II:; The Mill on the Floss, Brother Jacob, and Leaves… (1908) 1 copia
George Eliot Collection: The Complete Novels, Short Stories, Poems and Essays (Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Scenes of… (2018) 1 copia
The Spanish Gypsy and Other Poems. Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, Romola, Felix Holt The Radical., Daniel Deronda,… (1920) 1 copia
Mill on the Floss, Volume 3 1 copia
Great work of George Eliot 1 copia
George Eliot Works: Silas Marner / The Lifted Veil / Brother Jacob and Scenes of Clerical Life (1890) 1 copia
THE BEST-KNOWN NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT. Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Maner, Romola (1946) 1 copia
The Mill on the Floss (Complete All Books) : Classic Edition With Original Illustrations (2020) 1 copia
The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes - DANIEL DERONDA - PART ONE - VOL IX (Volume IX) 1 copia
George Eliot's Works 5 Volumes Romola,The Mill On The Floss,Middlemarch,Daniel Deronda,Felix Holt (1891) 1 copia
The Works of George Eliot (1) 1 copia
Biographie 1 copia
Famous Women 1 copia
Golden Grain 1 copia
The Complete Novels of George Eliot - All 9 Novels in One Edition: Adam Bede, The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the Floss,… (2017) 1 copia
Merrill's English texts 1 copia
George Eliot's Works / The Complete Works of George Eliot - Impressions of Theophrastus Such - Miscellaneous Essays… (1910) 1 copia
Talking Classics : Middlemarch 1 copia
Silas Marner (abridged) 1 copia
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Evans, Mary Ann
- Altri nomi
- Evans, Marian
Cross, Mary Anne - Data di nascita
- 1819
- Data di morte
- 1880
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Highgate, Londen
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- throat infection
- Luogo di residenza
- Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Istruzione
- Mrs. Wallington's School (Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK)
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
editor - Relazioni
- Lewes, George Henry (husband)
Cross, J. W. (husband)
Hennell, Sara (friend)
Spencer, Herbert (friend)
Evans, Gwyn (great-nephew) - Breve biografia
- Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne 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, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), 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 of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances. She also wanted to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. Another factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny, thus avoiding the scandal that would have arisen because of her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes.
Middlemarch has been described by the novelists Martin Amis[3] and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language. Published under the name J. T. Colgan.
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Group read: Curious, If True by Elizabeth Gaskell / The Lifted Veil by George Eliot in Virago Modern Classics (Gennaio 28)
Victorian Readalong Q4: Middlemarch by George Eliot in Club Read 2022 (Dicembre 2022)
George Eliot and George Henry Lewes in Legacy Libraries (Marzo 2022)
March 2021: George Eliot in Monthly Author Reads (Febbraio 2022)
Group Read: Middlemarch, Second Thread in 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (Ottobre 2018)
Middlemarch: The Chatty Bits (Spoilers Go Here) in The Green Dragon (Marzo 2015)
Group Read, September 2014: The Mill on the Floss in 1001 Books to read before you die (Settembre 2014)
Middlemarch Group Read 2014 in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Agosto 2014)
Middlemarch group read in 2014 Category Challenge (Aprile 2014)
Daniel Deronda in Geeks who love the Classics (Aprile 2013)
Group Read: Middlemarch, Third Thread in 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (Febbraio 2011)
Group Read: Middlemarch in 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (Novembre 2010)
***Group Read: Middlemarch Books 7-8 in 1001 Books to read before you die (Settembre 2010)
***Group Read: Middlemarch Books 5-6 in 1001 Books to read before you die (Agosto 2010)
***Group Read: Middlemarch Books 3-4 in 1001 Books to read before you die (Agosto 2010)
***Group Read: Middlemarch Prelude & Books 1-2 in 1001 Books to read before you die (Agosto 2010)
Middlemarch in Victoriana (Dicembre 2009)
Middlemarch: Book I in Group Reads - Literature (Mag 2008)
Middlemarch (Spoilers Here) in Connecticut Nutmeggers (Marzo 2008)
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Un po' troppo didascalico, anche il relazione ai libri dell'epoca, con personaggi utili solo al loro 'scopo narrativo' e oltre a quello per nulla approfonditi (anche Silas stesso). Essendo breve, si è fatto leggere, ma non so se lo consigliere a chi non sia proprio appassionati di questo tipo di letteratura.