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  2. George Eliot - Wikipedia

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    Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian [1] [2]), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. [3]

  3. The Mill on the Floss - Wikipedia

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    Like other novels by George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss articulates the tension between circumstances and the spiritual energies of individual characters struggling against those circumstances. A certain determinism is at play throughout the novel, from Mr Tulliver's inability to keep himself from "going to law", and thereby losing his ...

  4. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Wikipedia

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    Georges Seurat, Study for "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte", 1884, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 104.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Georges Seurat painted A Sunday Afternoon between May 1884 and March 1885, and from October 1885 to May 1886, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park [2] and concentrating on issues of colour, light, and form.

  5. Adam Bede - Wikipedia

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    Adam Bede was the first novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published in 1859.It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.

  6. The Waste Land - Wikipedia

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    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...

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  8. Scenes of Clerical Life - Wikipedia

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    The second work in Scenes of Clerical Life is titled "Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story" and concerns the life of a clergyman named Maynard Gilfil. We are introduced to Mr Gilfil in his capacity as the vicar of Shepperton, 'thirty years ago' (presumably the late 1820s) but the central part of the story begins in June 1788 and concerns his youth, his ...

  9. In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette

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    In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette (1875) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette (Au jardin - Sous la tonnelle au moulin de la Galette) is an 1875 oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in his studio on Rue Cortot in Montmartre. [1]