George Eliot
1819 - 1880
novelist whose works captured human behaviour and endeavour in the Victorian era.
George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Anne or Marian Evans, captured life with a sensitivity that encompassed an understanding of human behaviour and relationships. She was sent to boarding school from the age of five and was influenced by the strict views expressed there. She became markedly self-critical.
After writing Adam Bede, she was forced to reveal her identity as someone else claimed to be the author. The success of this novel ensured her role as a novel of repute and she became very financially secure.
She observed the effects of the Industrial Revolution in her novels, and expressed doubts about Christianity. Eliot's relationship with Lewes was controversial and due to circumstances surrounding his divorce she was never able to marry him. As a result, she was ostracised from society.
Despite this, her fame overcame circumstances of her personal life.
Middlemarch is considered to be one of the finest works of prose in the English language.
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The Influence of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" on George Eliot's writing. -- Interpretation of 3 Eliot's novels: "The Mill on the Floss", "Daniel Deronda", "Middlemarch", and one poem "Brother and Sister" within the context of Darwin's work.
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Eliot's Middlemarch: 'Viciousness in he Kitchen' and Fragmentation in the Boudoir -- George Eliot's Middlemarch and the Fragmentation of Women in the Nineteenth Century
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Joseph Conrad's Influence on Modernist Writers -- Conrad's inluences upon Virginia Woolf etc
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Middlemarch: History and/or Romance? -- The Novel in the Light of Northrrop Frye's Concept of 'Mythos'
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