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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]
The Eliot family is a British aristocratic family whose members include earls, ... Lieut-Col. George Augustus Eliot (1784–1835) fought in the RSC in Canada. His ...
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 ...
There is an "Adam Bede Cottage" in the village, so named because it was the family home of the Evanses, the family of "George Eliot" - Mary Ann Evans. Her uncle lived there during her lifetime and it is said that she did visit. The Methodist references in Adam Bede fit this locality well.
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.
Bird Grove House, known locally as the George Eliot house, is a two storey stucco house in Foleshill, Coventry. It was occupied by Mary Ann Evans (better known as George Eliot ) and her father between 1841 and 1849.
George Henry Lewes (/ ˈ l uː ɪ s / ⓘ; 18 April 1817 – 30 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He was also an amateur physiologist . American feminist Margaret Fuller called Lewes a "witty, French, flippant sort of man". [ 1 ]
Edward Eliot represented St Germans, Liskeard and Cornwall in the House of Commons and served as a commissioner of the Board of Trade and Plantations.He was the son of Richard Eliot (died 1748) and his wife Harriot, illegitimate daughter of James Craggs the Younger by his mistress, the noted actress Hester Santlow.