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Biography

Name: George Eliot
Variant Name: Mary Ann Evans
Birth Date: 1819
Death Date: 1880
Place of Birth: Warwickshire, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist

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Biography of George Eliot
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George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of the most important writers of European fiction. Her masterpiece, Middlemarch, is not only a major social document but also one of the greatest novels in the...
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Biography of George Eliot
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The most learned and respected novelist of the late Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched together by her widower, John Walter Cross, left out...
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Biography of George Eliot
14,071 words, approx. 47 pages
The most learned and respected novelist of the later Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched together by her widower, John Walter Cross, left...
 


Quotations
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George Eliot Quotes
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Mary Ann Evans ( 22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880 ) was an English novelist and poet, more well-known by her pen name George Eliot , she also for a time used Mary Anne and Marian as variant spellings of her name. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Scenes of...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Eliot, George (1819–1880) Summary
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Eliot, George(1819–1880) Born Marian (or Mary Ann) Evans, George Eliot was the assumed name of the English novelist, poet, essayist, and translator. She was reared near Coventry and in her early years attended a school run by a fervent...
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Recent Developments : Protestantism
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The great social, religious, and cultural revolutions of the 1960s may be seen as largely disrupting the second denominational arrangement. Much of this affected denominationalism on the social level. During the 1960s, the unifying social appeal of a...
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Eliot, George Summary
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Eliot is a respected novelist of the late nineteenth century, and her work has been praised for its penetrating psychological analysis and profound insight into human character. Generally played against the backdrop of English rural life,...
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George Eliot Information
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Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known...


News and Journals
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AP News
Today in history - June 12
6/12/2007: 559 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Tuesday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2007. There are 202 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 12, 1987, President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down...
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The New York Observer
Carolyn Ryan is Times New Deputy Metro Editor
4/9/2007: 823 words, approx. 3 pages
Boston Globe, is staying within the Times Company family: She's just been named a deputy metro editor for government and politics at the New York Times. Unfortunately, Ms. Ryan's exit happens at a time when about two dozen Globe staffers have accepted buyouts. Joe...
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AP News
'It' boy Hugh Dancy tackles Broadway
3/12/2007: 1,251 words, approx. 4 pages
It's been a big year for Hugh Dancy, the actor anointed by media as the next British heartthrob about to storm our shores.Dancy is appearing in his first Broadway play, starring as the tortured Capt. Stanhope in the British classic "Journey's End." He also has...
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The New York Observer
Expert, Elegant Satire Gently Exposes Media Elite
8/27/2006: 1,145 words, approx. 4 pages
For her fourth novel, The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud has put aside her customary sobriety and composed a suspenseful, dark, pitch-perfect comedy of manners and morals about a small collection of individuals who aspire to—or might have stepped from—the “Intelligencer” section of New York magazine...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by James Krasner
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In the following-essay, Krasner explores the personal costs of "exposure" as defined in George Eliot's poetry.
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Critical Essay by Bonnie J. Lisle
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In the following excerpt, Lisle argues that while Eliot's poems are flawed, they are nevertheless worth pursuing as avenues to understanding George Eliot and her novels.
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Critical Essay by K. M. Newton
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In the following excerpt, Newton asserts that Don Silva, a rebellious character in Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy, is a strong example of a Byronic egoist.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 83%
Old Leisure
1,224 words, approx. 4 pages
George Eliot presents her views on "old leisure," pertaining to life many years ago, and new leisure, pertaining to life as it is in her time. Through her use of personification, diction and imagery, Eliot contrasts the simple lifestyle of the past with the complex lifestyle of the present, and reveals her nostalgia towards Old Leisure.


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