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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]
He remained proprietor and editor until his death in 1940. In 1930, he founded the George Eliot Fellowship. [1] References External links ...
The house was then occupied by the novelist George Eliot, who lived there until her death in 1880. Together with her new husband, John Cross, they leased it in the spring 1880, commissioning a "Mr Armitage of Manchester" to supervise the redecoration and furnishing. However, they did not move in until 3 December, and Eliot died on 22 December 1880.
He was the author of George Eliot: A Biography and the editor of The George Eliot Letters. "[Haight] was completely absorbed in the life and work of George Eliot and had the distinction, before he died, of being asked to speak at the dedication of her memorial in Westminster Abbey, an extraordinary recognition for an American, as I am sure you ...
Griff House is the childhood home of George Eliot, on the road to Coventry, south of Nuneaton, where Eliot (as Mary Ann Evans) lived from the age of 1 to 21. [1]The building, off the Griff Roundabout on the A444 is now the Griff House Beefeater & Nuneaton Premier Travel Inn on Coventry Road, Nuneaton (CV10 7PJ). [2]
The collection includes “her short story collection, one of the most complete in the world … as are 22 volumes on Keats, first editions of George Eliot’s novels, and rare editions of Edgar Allan Poe.” The collection also contains her “prized possession,” a crayon portrait of Eliot by Samuel Laurence (1860). [3]
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The sisters are considered to be the basis for the fictional Meyrick family in George Eliot's 1876 novel Daniel Deronda. [2] In 1836, Charles Bray married her sister Caroline. After his sister's marriage to Bray, a thoroughgoing sceptic, her brother Charles Hennell reviewed the evidences for Christian beliefs to parry his brother-in-law's argument.