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Silas Marner by George Eliot

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Author 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
1331 words, approx. 4.4 pages
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 his...
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Biography of George Eliot
14583 words, approx. 48.6 pages
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 t...
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Biography of George Eliot
14071 words, approx. 46.9 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 out...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Silas Marner Information
1,655 words, approx. 6 pages
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is a novel by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) which was first published in...


News and Journals
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The New Leader
Silas Marner. (book reviews)
12/14/1992: 1,485 words, approx. 5 pages
THE NEW YORK TIMES reported recently that Silas Marner, the third most frequently assigned book in American high schools 30 years ago, had disappeared completely from reading lists by the late 1980s. That bit of scholastic trivia struck a personal chord. In 1971,...
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West Virginia University Philological Papers
Hoarding motherhood in Silas Marner.(Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe)(Critical essay)
09/22/2005: 7,062 words, approx. 24 pages
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths elude the barriers of system. George Eliot The doctrine of separate spheres has long served a double function: as historical master narrative and as a set of ideas that has proven especially useful to feminist...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
Analysis of George Elliot's 'Silas Marner'
2,733 words, approx. 9 pages
George Eliot's "Silas Marner" is about the redemptive power of love and the process of Silas losing his faith in man and God.it is clearly a story about love, happiness and honesty over wealth and comfort.
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Essay Grade: 85%
Silas Marner
2,262 words, approx. 8 pages
Essay describes how the community of Raveloe reacts to each key moment in the novel "Silas Marner" by George Eliot.
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Essay Grade: 86%
"the Portrayal of Godfrey Robs Him of Any Sympathy." Do You Agree?
2,209 words, approx. 7 pages
From an overview of the novel Silas Marner, by George Eliot, the author might seem to paint a rather negative picture of Godfrey with regards to his relations with Eppie, the author had tried to redeem Godfrey's place in the readers' eyes. Hence, the statement would be largely inaccurate due to its extremity, for at the end of the novel, the reader would definitely feel sympathetic towards Godfrey.
 


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