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Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872.
In the 20th century she was championed by a new breed of critics, most notably by Virginia Woolf, who called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people". [4] In 1994, literary critic Harold Bloom placed Eliot among the most important Western writers of all time. [64]
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans.It was published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, the novel is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.
The screenwriter and Man Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement and Lessons on James Joyce, Middlemarch, and the book that made him miss a train stop. Ian McEwan on James Joyce, 'Middlemarch ...
Lionel Stevenson wrote that "The most explosive impact in English literature during the nineteenth century is unquestionably Thomas Carlyle's. From about 1840 onward, no author of prose or poetry was immune from his influence." George Eliot's novel Middlemarch stands as a great milestone in the realist tradition. It is a primary example of ...
Daniel Deronda is a novel written by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published in eight parts (books) February to September 1876. [1] It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the Victorian society of her day.
Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.. The English novel is an important part of English literature.This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland (or any part of Ireland before 1922).
Rosemary Hawley Jarman (1935–2015), historical novels; Marguerite Florence Laura Jarvis (Oliver Sandys, 1886–1964) Robin Jarvis (born 1963), The Whitby Witches; Edith Spicer Jay (1847–1901), military novels; John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901) Michael Jecks (born 1960), historical mystery novels; Edgar Jepson (1863–1938) Margaret Jepson ...