| 单词 | George Eliot |
| 例句 | They wanted a realist, so I suggested George Eliot—no, Eliot was actually Mary Anne Evans under a pen name, not a strong male author. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Half the time I wrote like bad George Eliot, the other half like bad Salinger. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “George Eliot,” he added, and I nodded, as if I knew who that was. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “The Mill on the Floss” contains one of George Eliot’s sharpest caricatures in the figure of the foul schoolmaster Stelling. ‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z I mean, what if Shakespeare eats with his mouth open and George Eliot fails to bring a cake? How Bob Dylan Turned David Remnick on to Serious Reading 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The pages devoted to George Eliot, about whom Hughes has published an entire book, focus on how family members wanted the novelist depicted in biographies. Review | Why Darwin grew that iconic beard and other tales of the Victorian era 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z But George Eliot didn't get a London street named for her in her lifetime, nor after it, either. The naming of Berlin 2011-03-18T12:27:49Z A signed copy of Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities bearing a personal inscription to fellow author George Eliot has gone on sale for £275,000. Signed Dickens book up for £275,000 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z In her new novel, “The Honeymoon,” Dinitia Smith has taken on the most enigmatic portion of the life of Marian Evans, the woman behind the pseudonym George Eliot. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Also on display is a letter to George Eliot which shows she clearly did not approve that the novelist was not married to George Lewis and agonised about how to refer to her. Elizabeth Gaskell bicentenary marked with exhibition 2010-07-20T14:49:00Z Or picture George Eliot cornering Arthur Schopenhauer to challenge his argument that women are unsuited for artistic and intellectual greatness. Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “Who would have guessed that Lydia Davis would appear on more shelves than George Eliot?” she asks. A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books 2012-11-22T19:55:15Z On any given day, you may not be in the mood for George Eliot, Jane Austen, Beethoven, Bach or the Beatles. Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, Dostoevsky and “all the Brontës’s novels” are among the impressive goals! Perspective | Conquer ‘Moby-Dick,’ finish ‘Infinite Jest’: Avid readers share their resolutions for 2021 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z George Eliot is one of those brilliant writers who manages to be polemical while telling a really good story. Read 'em and keep: what are the books to pass on to the next generation? 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z I had never had my Jane Austen phase or Edith Wharton phase or even George Eliot phase, I associated those writers with puberty, or “courting,” both things that repelled me. The Only Thing I Envy Men 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z She published “Songs of a Semite” and dedicated the book to George Eliot, whose novel “Daniel Deronda” hit her with the force of revelation. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z The publication in England of the “Tennyson Birthday Book,” in 1878, inspired a George Eliot birthday book later that year. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Gordon links five visionaries who made literary history — George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf — through their shared understanding of death and violence. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z George Eliot is more intellectual and more ambitious than Gaskell, her narrators more penetrating and empathetic. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z His devoted friend George Eliot concurred with the verdict of another close friend, Lord Bryce, that his “was perhaps the most original mind of his generation.” The ‘Greatest Victorian’ Is Largely Forgotten. His Biographer Wants to Change That. 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z He thinks, as Victorian idealists such as George Eliot did, that the purpose of good books is to teach one how to live better. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z And then, too, as Damrosch points out, there was no George Eliot, no Virginia Woolf: “It never ceased to be a club for men.” The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Brenda Maddox is the author, most recently, of “Eminent Lives — George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife” out in Britain and soon to be published in the United States. A Literary Leap to Give Tourists Pause 2010-06-18T16:17:00Z If one looks at 19th-century literature and intellectual scope, it's George Eliot … and Elizabeth Gaskell. AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural 2010-08-20T18:37:00Z In 1945, she began working in in the Ministry of Education, and two years later she married Tibor Szobotka, a writer who was the Hungarian translator of James Joyce and George Eliot, among others. The Hungarian Despair of Magda Szabó’s “The Door” 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z George Eliot, who tried to learn comedy from Dickens but didn't quite have the ear for it, is forever shaking us out of our complacencies. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z We meet with the usual suspects — like Nietzsche and Dawkins — but also romp around with Plato, Wittgenstein, Yeats, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biographyby Nancy Henry It is a bold start to what is clearly intended as a different kind of biography. The Life of George Eliot by Nancy Henry - review 2012-06-01T21:55:03Z It's a far cry from Daniel Defoe, who was put in the pillory for his writing, or from George Eliot, who declared that if the novel "does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally". Do creative writing courses make novels too 'literary'? 2011-01-10T12:09:17Z It can be exhausting having to extend “our sympathies,” to borrow an idea from George Eliot, to the same old male characters. Heroines Triumph at Box Office, but Has Anything Changed in Hollywood? 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z In this sense, it’s fitting that “Normal People” opens with an epigraph from George Eliot’s “Daniel Deronda,” drawing on a connection to the 19th-century social commentary that also examined the depth of these dividing lines. Review | At 28, Sally Rooney has been called the voice of her generation. Believe the hype. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z “There, he’s ended up in Henry James’s and George Eliot’s novels, and become part of the culture,” she said. The Frick Acquires Its First Renaissance Portrait of a Woman 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z For yes, in case you’ve been living under a giant rockery, George Eliot was a “her,” with several roles other than her nom de plume: daughter, sister, friend, wife, stepmother. George Eliot’s Scandalous Answer to ‘The Marriage Question’ 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z A woman collapsed in a chaise longue on a brick and breeze-block patio is trying to read George Eliot’s “Daniel Deronda.” ‘Infinite Life’ Review: Is There a Cure for Pain and Desire? 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z But Trollope, a provincial postmaster as well as an eminent novelist, didn’t occupy an eighteenth-century mansion on an exclusive stretch of the embankment of the Thames; George Eliot, his literary peer and friend, did. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z George Eliot’s novels are greater because, as noted by Fareed Zakaria’s By the Book interview in the same issue, she wrote with “insight into people’s inner lives.” England’s Greatest Novelist and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z At first, Glavin specialized in Victorian literature — Dickens and George Eliot and the Brontës — while writing plays on the side. His class is famously tough. ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Westworld’ wouldn’t exist without it. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Novelists, including Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and George Eliot, released their works in chapters that cost a few shillings each. Antiques: Artifacts of the Titanic at Auctions as 2012 Centennial Nears 2011-10-06T22:54:35Z Not in the modern sense, though an idea of female power as a protean force was central to her thinking, as it was to the writers she loved: Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot. ‘I’m Nobody’? Not a Chance, Emily Dickinson 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z For instance, George Eliot and Marcel Proust are writers who understand politics, the history of the arts, moral philosophy but can render the force of the passions. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z I find George Eliot’s didactic tone and suffocating authorial presence pretty well unbearable. John Banville, the Contemporary Novelist Who Avoids Contemporary Novels 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z He went on to cite George Eliot and referred to “Middlemarch” as “one of the great books.” Gay Talese Goes Through the Twitter Wringer 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But when I was away for that year between school and university, reading lots of nineteenth-century novels in preparation for my English degree, I had a huge George Eliot binge. Teen book club: interviews Lydia Syson! 2012-12-21T08:00:00Z FR Leavis did, when he enrolled Lawrence in the "great tradition" of the English novel, comprising Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z George Eliot is a hell of a writer and I’m a big fan of the way liberal arts help us sharpen our philosophies. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z George Eliot translated Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity fluently and flexibly, and its influence is strong in her work. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z Would Mary Ann Evans, for example, have secured VC funding for The Mill on the Floss if she hadn’t presented as George Eliot? Initial impressions: will hiding my name force gender equality in the workplace? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But then he falls for a pretty woman – Rosamond Vincy – and, in George Eliot's stern scheme of things, his medical ambitions are doomed. Ten of the best good doctors in literature 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z He's widely acclaimed for having written the first great novel of the 21st century, but the form of that novel – state-of-the-nation social realism – looks back to Dickens and George Eliot. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z There are fiction writers I admire, whose work tends to the essayistic, who take on positions – George Eliot, Balzac, Fielding – and the strength of their work is in the freedom, the unshackling, that fiction affords. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z "A German comedy is like a German sentence," George Eliot once remarked. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z Last November, growing increasingly infuriated with President Trump’s dangerous maneuvers and the rising coronavirus numbers, I put aside rereading George Eliot’s “Middlemarch.” To detox from the news, I binge-watched ‘Dallas.’ It was more than just fun. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z During the one decade 1811-20 not only were Byron, Keats and Shelley writing and Jane Austen’s novels published, but Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope and George Eliot were all born. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z George Eliot and Mary Shelley were, by far, the best women writers of the era. The curious US cult of Jane Austen 2013-01-28T01:12:48Z The library of his New York townhouse, with its towering bookcases, a portrait of George Eliot and a photo of the Chekhov family, was a shrine to literature. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z But at this point I find myself in agreement with George Eliot, who said, “I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense.” Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z I have had a complicated relationship with George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” over the years. Mary Beard Would Like a Moratorium on Churchill Biographies, Thank You 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z “Straight down the line — it’s George Eliot, it’s Dickens, it’s Dr. Johnson, it’s Jane Austen.” Booker Prize Winner?s Jewish Question 2010-10-18T22:35:00Z It was a veritable temple devoted to the past two or three centuries of first-rate, secondhand and antiquarian books: the Brontë sisters, the Mitford sisters, George Eliot, James Joyce, James Jones, Henry James. A Bookworm’s Travel Plan 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Could this have laid the foundation for the triumphs of the English novel, from Daniel Defoe through George Eliot and Thomas Hardy? Exhibition Review: ?Manifold Greatness? and King James Bible at Folger - Review 2011-09-29T22:15:20Z I recently spent time in the North of England and took along George Eliot’s “The Mill on the Floss.” He’s Played Churchill and Lear. But for John Lithgow, Audiobooks Test His Mettle. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z But it also contains an even more intriguing parenthetical aside about the "difficult case" of George Eliot, who wrote not out of frustration, but "as an extension of the womanly duty of mediation". Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z I remarked upon how underbred, illiterate, insistent, raw & ultimately nauseating she was before retiring from the room to my bed, therewith to restore myself with a little George Eliot. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z He also read Strauss's Life of Jesus, as translated by George Eliot. 'This wretched church' 2010-04-19T07:00:00Z Leo Tolstoy was nervous about getting the details right when he penned “War and Peace”; George Eliot dismissed the whole genre as “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists.” Review | How Queen Elizabeth’s wedding dress diverted war-torn England 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “What George Eliot does is center these huge reforms happening in England on individuals in a tiny little town,” she said. With Her Latest Novel, Petina Gappah Sees an Obsession Through 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z As George Eliot once warned, “The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.” Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z She notes that George Eliot almost always refused to let her novels be illustrated. Perspective | Illustrated novels have a vibrant history. A rich new era may be upon us. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z He’ll gladly neglect the endless task of computerizing his shelf-busting inventory to talk with you about his beloved 19th-century authors like George Eliot and Dostoyevsky, or his fine selection of Jewish theology. In Pittsburgh, a Bookstore Where ‘Freewheeling Curiosity’ Reigns 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Critics hailed her as America’s “foremost novelist” and the only American woman writer in the same league as George Eliot. Erased from history: Too many women writers — like Constance Fenimore Woolson — are left to languish in moldy archives. What will it take to bring them back? 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z I was interested to revisit them too, to find traces of George Eliot through the present day. Gillian Wearing on George Eliot: 'She spoke of life from every side' 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z After all, this is why Mary Ann Evans took up the pen name George Eliot and Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupon went by George Sand! J.K. Rowling’s rejection letters are a sorry statement on the future of book publishing 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Welsh, who says he loves the work of Jane Austen and George Eliot, creates a world more real than a great many worlds we enter in today’s fiction. Irvine Welsh is back with another brazen novel: ‘A Decent Ride’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s no surprise that George Eliot, the great portraitist of unhappy Victorian couples, did marriage her own way. 14 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Henry James would've thrown Nathaniel Hawthorne and George Eliot to the dogs if only to learn from Tintoretto. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z For George Eliot, "the greatest benefit we owe to the ... novelist, is the extension of our sympathies". Novels don't need to be 'nice' 2010-10-19T10:46:00Z The absence is striking in light of the 19th-century works that followed hers, in the genre she helped pioneer — novels by Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot in which death begins as much as it ends. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z George Eliot's portrayal of the headstrong Maggie Tulliver is so tender, so insightful, so moving, and the complexities of her relationship with her brother and lovers so perceptively described. Lynn Shepherd's top 10 fictional drownings 2013-03-06T10:30:18Z Lewis, Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens — and discussed at the dinner table, in the car, on walks. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z I read “Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, at least once a year because I want to curl up inside Eliot’s warm intelligence. Lauren Groff: By the Book 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The ornate bronze stucco of Ca’ Giustinian marks the scene of the suicide attempt in June 1880 of the new young husband of the British novelist George Eliot. A Literary Leap to Give Tourists Pause 2010-06-18T16:17:00Z And this is no less true of Jane Austen, left, and George Eliot than it is of Tolstoy and Dickens. Orange Prize: Women authors can lighten up?and still be taken seriously 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z I was made to read Dickens and George Eliot at school, which was such tough going for me that I believed reading fiction to be a form of torture. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z In the long run, everyone remembers George Eliot while the Rosamonds who outshone her in her youth are all forgotten. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z He has thought a lot about Jane Austen and George Eliot, worked out how they did things, and says George Moore's novel Esther Waters really hit him emotionally after he taught it to one group. A life in books: Colm T?ib?n 2010-10-25T07:00:00Z She is engrossed in George Eliot’s “Daniel Deronda,” a novel so vast and branching that it’s nearly impossible for her to answer when someone inquires, “What’s it about?” Commentary: Annie Baker chases nexus of pain and desire in hypnotic observational odyssey, ‘Infinite Life’ 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z All you’ve got to do is read a couple pages of George Eliot and you realize you’re not as f— clever as you think. How Emma Thompson steps up to be the hero she never had in 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Being an idealist, I think you should, though certain classics — Samuel Johnson’s moral essays, George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” — are best appreciated in middle age, when they will pierce you to the marrow. Perspective | Why read old books? A case for the classic, the unusual, the neglected. 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Dubois, George Eliot and many others came together to form Jefferson — and American culture at large. The 15 best nonfiction books for fans of advice, memoirs and histories 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The first book I ever heard Stevenson narrate was George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” and I can’t imagine a more perfect marriage of brilliant writing and performance. How the narrator can make or break your next audiobook 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z This is the final resting place for about 170,000 Londoners, among them George Eliot, Karl Marx and Henry Moore. A City of the Dead That Inspires the Living 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z George Eliot was the pen name of a female writer who dismissed the plots of fiction written by many 19th-century women as trivial and ridiculous. Behind a Top Female Name in Spanish Crime Fiction: Three Men 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z We are not talking about a figure likely to change literary history or provoke empathy in the same way George Eliot, Jane Austen or Ferrante did. Opinion | A bestselling female author was revealed to be three men. The episode tells a deeper story. 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The title of the trilogy, “A Key to All Mythologies,” is also the name of Rev. Casaubon’s uncompleted work of theological scholarship in George Eliot’s “Middlemarch.” Review: Is Jonathan Franzen too big to fail? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Besides rereading Marcel Proust, he’s recently read Gustave Flaubert’s novel “Sentimental Education,” George Eliot’s novel “Middlemarch” and stories by Guy de Maupassant. David Hockney in lockdown: How the artist found his perpetual spring in a horrible year 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Both Queen Victoria and George Eliot pressed seaweed in their day. What Victorian-era seaweed pressings reveal about our changing seas 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The last book that made me cry I recently shed a little tear at Philip Wakem’s letter to Maggie Tulliver near the end of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. Sally Rooney: 'I want the next thing I do to be the best thing I’ve ever done' 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z I’d forgotten how much smarter George Eliot is than I am, which is a salubrious feeling. We asked authors what they read, hear and watch in quarantine. Here's Charles Finch's diary 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Spoiler: George Eliot came up a few times. 10 authors, from Laila Lalami to Alexander Chee, on the books they might finally read in quarantine 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” has changed my life, and changed me, in countless subtle ways. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z The aged copies of George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” the writer kept in her bookcase. In the snow with Greta Gerwig at the places that inspired 'Little Women' 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Instead, adopting the pseudonym George Eliot, she poured her memories of “that hideous neighbourhood” into a series of glorious and highly profitable novels. What George Eliot’s ‘provincial’ novels can teach today’s divided Britain 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Wandering upstairs to her bedroom, Pippa checked the e-mails on her phone, then succumbed to the desire to lie down on the bed with her George Eliot novel. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z He also admired Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot and Emily Dickinson; among the hundreds of critical editions of books he edited were works on Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Amy Tan. Harold Bloom, literary critic who wrote of the ‘anxiety of influence,’ dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z He also admired Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot and Emily Dickinson and the hundreds of critical editions he edited include works on Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Amy Tan. Harold Bloom, author and literary critic, dies at age 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps following in the footsteps of George Eliot, De Witte originally took the name of a posh white man to get herself noticed: Raving George. Tunisian techno, Xitsongan rap and Satanic doo-wop: the best new music of 2019 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Mary Anne Evans was trying to trick readers by pretending to be a male author named George Eliot. Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z George Eliot, who was one of the few women to make Leavis’s lineup, may be admired, but she is hardly worshipped in the same way as Brontë. The strange cult of Emily Brontë and the 'hot mess' of Wuthering Heights 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Similarly, a copy of Tale of Two Cities signed by Charles Dickens to George Eliot went for £200,000. How much are signed books worth? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z I had been earnestly dealing with the Cambridge English Faculty reading list and picked up Portnoy having frowned my way through George Eliot’s Romola. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z To George Eliot Very wrong and ill comparison to Hitler and Mussolini. Trump Is ‘Saving Us’: Minnesota Mining Country Warms to Tariffs and G.O.P. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens guessed that George Eliot was a woman, but no one else seems to have. Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Theatre Works records a new adaptation of George Eliot's novel about Jewish life during the Victorian Era for its radio program; with Julian Sands. The week ahead in L.A. theater, March 11-18: 'An Undivided Heart,' 'A 24-Decade History of Popular Music' and more 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z But two books I read in my teens, Middlemarch by George Eliot and The Female Eunuch, had a large impact on how I thought about women and their relations with men. The book that made me a feminist 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z The George Eliot Hospital Trust admitted liability and in an out-of-court settlement agreed to pay £45,000. Woman was kept alive against her will 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Jane Austen and George Eliot novels are long exercises of character analysis, as potential lovers weigh each other’s merits and flaws. A degraded society’s tolerance for predators 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Leavis, a well-known literary critic at Cambridge University, listed him in “The Great Tradition” as being up there with Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James. Joseph Conrad, the first novelist of globalisation 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Cook’s writing reminds him of George Eliot, he says: that same keen sympathy for how life is actually lived. 'Tear it down and start again': playwright Elinor Cook on sexism in British theatre 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z There were only four women on the course – the Brontës, George Eliot and Jane Austen. The book that made me a feminist 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Another relationship that changes over time is Maggie Tulliver’s adoration of her brother, Tom. Top 10 brothers and sisters in fiction 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z "If you think what it would be like without Jane Austen, without the Bronte sisters, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot - there wouldn't be any understanding from that female point of view." Top of the Lake: Elisabeth Moss on her most 'challenging' role - BBC News 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z “George Eliot is the greatest,” he said, and walked off. Charles Dickens Makes Me Want to Throw Up 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Then he added, “Don’t take this the wrong way, but there tends to be an inverse relationship between how hot a woman is and how good a writer. Exhibit A is George Eliot.” “Show Don’t Tell” 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Mrs Gaskell could be conventional – she once wrote a fan letter to George Eliot with the caveat that she wished she could have addressed it to a “Mrs” instead of a “Miss”. Elizabeth Gaskell: Charlotte Brontë's unlikely defender against prurient gossip 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z But for women, pseudonymity has had a special role: as a means of achieving credibility by posing as men, as George Sand, George Eliot and the Brontë sisters did in the 19th century. Unmasked? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z My great-aunt adopted a male name, as George Eliot did, to ensure her works would be taken seriously at a time when women writers were still regularly diminished. I know how Elena Ferrante feels. My great-aunt was outed too | Angela Neustatter 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z What if the real way forward weren’t a great leap but grinding, tedious, unglamorously incremental change—what George Eliot called “meliorism”? The Return of the Utopians 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z “All of us, grave or light,” George Eliot writes in “Middlemarch,” “get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.” America is off the tracks, but the GOP errs in thinking it can right her 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z With an ardency worthy of George Eliot, he concludes, “We have acutely sensitive hands, but we handle the world with thick gloves and then, bored, blame it for lacking shape.” The Man Who Became a Goat 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Bloomberg bought a house in part because it had been owned by George Eliot. Bloomberg’s Presidential Dreams, and Past Realities 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z But it’s important, too, to think about the value of rereading favorite works: Robert Frost’s poems, perhaps, or George Eliot’s “Middlemarch.” Hello, Old Friend, Time to Read You Again 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z And had she come with the “venerating expectation” that George Eliot attributes to Dorothea Brooke before her first meeting with Casaubon? Nabokov’s Silent Partner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Like Brontë, George Eliot and Harper Lee before them, 20% are disguising the fact they are female by writing anonymously or using a non-gender-specific name. Female technology journalists report abuse is still the name of the game 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The property, which was once home to the novelist George Eliot, is accessed by a private road and decorated in an extravagant period style. Michael Bloomberg buys £16m house in exclusive London street 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z George Eliot?” you can imagine him saying to himself. Bloomberg’s Presidential Dreams, and Past Realities 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The former Ashes winner visited George Eliot primary school, near enough to Lord's cricket ground in London to be almost in range of a decent six. Exam pressure hurting summer sports, says Mike Gatting - BBC News 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z George Eliot has a nobler mind, but her sympathies are so broad that they are essentially planetary: she sees, beautifully, from high above. Why Trollope Is Trending 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z We still laud many novels that began as serials: George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” Thomas Hardy’s “Far From the Madding Crowd,” Henry James’s “Portrait of a Lady.” Bring back the serialized novel 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z At the same time, contrariwise, McEwan also wants to locate his novel in what he calls "the family division" of English prose, the "morally centred fiction of George Eliot, Conrad, James and even Austen". Ian McEwan: 'I'm only 66 – my notebook is still full of ideas' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z It was Gainsborough, on which the fictional town of St Ogg's was based in the George Eliot novel The Mill on the Floss. A train trip through the UK's industrial past 2013-10-09T10:30:57Z Some centuries later, the novelist George Eliot grew up on the estate. Stirling Prize: Astley Castle 2013-09-16T07:12:31Z You vaunt George Eliot – whom I'd love to see on a future banknote – but I'm not sure that even she managed this. Does Jane Austen deserve a place on our £10 notes? 2013-06-29T23:04:24Z She suggests a long list of women who could be feature on the note - suffragette Emily Davison, National Trust founder Octavia Hill and novelist George Eliot to name just a few. Which woman should go on a banknote next? 2013-06-24T10:57:04Z These words of wisdom are from the English novelist George Eliot. 4 Lessons for Baby-Boomer Entrepreneurs 2013-04-02T13:18:00Z George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust wishes to express its sincere condolences to the family and offers its profound apologies for the failings in the care provided. 'Errors' made in baby delivery 2013-01-24T09:49:54Z Philosopher Karl Marx, poet Christina Rossetti and novelist George Eliot are buried in the cemetery. Rare spiders found in cemetery 2013-01-20T16:08:31Z George Eliot and her man Friday, proper British persons, were rather shocked when they visited Weimar. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The essays on Heine by George Eliot and Matthew Arnold are well known. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z He admires George Eliot in literature, and, I should say, he regards Charles Dickens as a sort of person who does very well to amuse idlers and ignorant people. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z George Eliot, in her "Scenes of Clerical Life," gives, in one chapter, an account of how the Rev. Amos Barton is criticised and discussed in his parish. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z The fullness of George Eliot's mind at this time may be gathered from the rapidity with which one work followed another. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z A good introduction for children to George Eliot's writings. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z When George Eliot resigned, Mrs. Chapman became the associate editor. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z This theory, so soothing to complacent dulness, was hardly borne out in the instance of the Brownings; it is just as little corroborated by the example of "George Eliot" and George Lewes. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z He once dared to couple the name of the "odious" George Eliot with Flaubert's. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z A day or two after George Eliot's death the Saturday Review contained an elaborate editorial summary of her work. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Of course it is no blasphemy to dispute my estimate; but what prospect is there of reversing the common verdict of George Eliot, George Meredith, Swinburne, and Rossetti? Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Dr. Chapman also told me he was the one who first employed George Eliot in literary work. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z People tell us they can trace the influence of Lewes's varied scholarship and critical judgment in the novels of George Eliot. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z That great charmless woman, George Eliot, smiles a smile of sombre ennui before the Spencer tomb, and the invisible voice of Ernest Haeckel is heard whispering: Where is your Positivism? Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The truth is George Eliot's book Daniel Deronda, is so sharp a sermon that it has made the whole English contemporary society uncomfortable. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z George Eliot wrote a sequence in this form, but did not thereby add to her fame. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The criticism which we quoted from George Eliot on the career of Melema is the quintessence of the Aristotelian doctrine. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z It would be poor art which allowed a thin stream of Lewes to be seen sparkling through the broad, deep, luminous lake which mirrors the genius of George Eliot. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The most instructive instance of this is afforded by the scholarly and illustrious woman of genius who will always be known to fame as George Eliot. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z In truth I find what seems to be a cunning indication that George Eliot herself did not feel quite sure of her audience for this same little play. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z One of George Eliot's witticisms made game of Spencer's aptitude for generalisation. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z That George Eliot had often been within this mansion is shown by her familiarity with the arrangement and ornamentation of the rooms, accurately described as scenes of many incidents of the tale. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Finally let me say that I fully expect George Eliot yet to give to the world some work of art even greater than any she has already produced. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z When George Eliot wedded in her writings the artistic to the scientific spirit, she invented a combination unknown till then; she opened a gold mine for herself and the more dexterous of her disciples. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z I must also instance one little passing picture in Silas Marner which though extremely fanciful, is yet, a charming type of some of the greatest and most characteristic work that George Eliot has done. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z When he went to the opera with George Eliot he remarked "how much analysis of the effects produced deducts from enjoyment of the effects." Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z We are newly come from the London homes of George Eliot and her grave on the Highgate hill-side, and now, as we traverse sweet Avonvale, we gladly remember that Shakespeare's shire is hers as well. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Every educated man and woman in England is assumed, as a matter of course, to be familiar with the works of George Eliot; but nobody is necessarily assumed to have read Charles Reade. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Lytton’s genius impelled him to mysticism, as George Eliot’s associations inclined her to positivism. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z This story of Janet's Repentance offers us, by the way, a strong note of modernness as between George Eliot and Shakspeare. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z In the following passage George Eliot states the law and keeps it. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z Mrs. Gaskell was one of the last to relinquish the belief that Liggins was George Eliot. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z The first number was enriched by one of the most thoughtful, subtle, beautiful essays lately contributed to literature; and it bore the signature of George Eliot. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z From George Eliot, in that phase of her genius now under consideration, there has sprung a school. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Gyp is only one of a number of genuine creations in animal character which show the modernness of George Eliot and Charles Dickens, and make them especially dear. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z George Eliot and Thomas Hardy are good models of the wise use of county speech. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z The grounds are little changed, save that the occupant has removed much of the foliage which formerly shrouded the mansion, but some of George Eliot's favorite trees remain on the lawn. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z I am not going into a criticism of George Eliot, who has been, no doubt, fully criticised in America already. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z When George Eliot was writing Daniel Deronda, Herr Joachim’s social and artistic ascendancy had just reached its culminating point. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z George Eliot's novels have all striking relationships among themselves which cause them to fall into various groups according to various points of view. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z George Eliot was very susceptible as to her surroundings. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z A cousin of George Eliot's was recently a coal-master in this vicinity. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z The deep philosophic thought of George Eliot's novels suffuses and illumines them everywhere. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z A scientific musician herself, George Eliot visited those circles where first-rate music was to be heard. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z It is only in Daniel Deronda, after she has been writing for more than twenty years, that George Eliot first ventures to deal with English society of the present day. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z "The Ethical Novel, as represented by George Eliot." How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z What a different world Parson Adams lived in from that of George Eliot's Amos Barton, bewildered with thoughts which he could not express. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z George Eliot never is guilty of this great artistic fault. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z George Eliot was truly religious, though perhaps not a Christian in the common acceptation. Miss Ellis's Mission 2012-02-11T03:04:04.613Z A couple of brief expressions from Janet's Repentance, the third of Scenes from Clerical Life show how intensely George Eliot felt upon this matter. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z It was in Italy that Browning and Tennyson and George Eliot and a host of other writers found inspiration and material to feed the fires of genius. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while George Eliot wears robes of glory woven in the loom of her own genius. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:59.847Z I still hold it, nevertheless; but I freely admit that George Eliot has nothing like the dramatic insight which enables George Sand to enter into the feelings and the experiences of a man. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Thus the moral purpose of Daniel Deronda which is certainly beyond all comparison less obtrusive than that of any other book written by George Eliot, grew by its very nearness, out of all perspective. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z According to the Croydon Public Library Committee, "readers are turning to Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot and Jane Austen for relief from war worry." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 14, 1916 2012-02-11T03:03:42.797Z Sometimes one is ready to say that a fragment, and not an inferior fragment, of the mantle of George Eliot is resting on her capable shoulders.—Century, For the Major A Novelette 2012-02-10T03:00:17.550Z The general verdict of English criticism would, I feel no doubt, place George Eliot on a higher pedestal than Charles Dickens. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Did you ever attack the character of Queen Victoria, or did you draw any parallel between 73 her and George Eliot, calculated to depreciate the reputation of the Queen? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z But I must hasten to complete the account of George Eliot's personal existence which we suspended at the point where she had come to London in 1851. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z The next day we went to George Eliot's. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z It’s dawning on me that the marriage plot, which maps so well onto novels by Austen and the Brontës and George Eliot, is misapplied to Dickens. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 8: Hard Times 2012-01-29T23:35:23Z I read, not long since, in a New York paper, a sentence which spoke of George Eliot and Miss Mulock as being the greatest English authoresses in the field of fiction. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z In one of my lectures I drew a parallel between George Eliot and Victoria. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z In George Eliot's story the young English Squire also finds death in finding gold. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z I met Herbert Spencer the other Sunday at George Eliot's, whither I had at last bent my steps. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Vaticination, if we are to believe George Eliot, is only one of the innumerable forms in which ignorance finds expression. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z Of course it would be a very doubtful kind of merit which commanded the admiration of literary prigs or pedants; but that is not the merit of George Eliot. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z He digs open the grave of George Eliot, and tries to stain the sacred dust of one who was the greatest woman England has produced. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z The most congenial of George Eliot's acquaintances during these early days at the Chapman's in London was Mr. Herbert Spencer. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Dickens and Thackeray and George Eliot knew him not. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z He could not enjoy any story with a tragical end; for this reason he did not keenly appreciate George Eliot, though he often spoke, warmly in praise of Silas Marner. Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z George Eliot's prose might be the study of a scholar anxious to acquire and appreciate a noble English style. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Browning, too, I used to meet at George Eliot's and Lord Houghton's breakfast parties. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z This seems to me so far from being true that many of George Eliot's characters appear like living objections to the theory of evolution. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z He would, we may be sure, have rejoiced to know that many more have visited the tomb of Tom Sayers in Highgate Cemetery than have visited the tomb of George Eliot in the same burial-ground. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z A novel that George Eliot might not have been ashamed to own up to.”—N. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z It is not, perhaps, unnecessary to say to American readers that George Eliot is the only novelist who can paint such English people as the Poysers and the Tullivers just as they really are. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z George Eliot's sombre realism repels me, whilst I fully admit her enormous power. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z But for particular purposes of comparison with Dickens and George Eliot hereafter, let me recall to you in the briefest way two of the comic scenes. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z He stood in front of a bookcase containing the works of George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z I am possessed with an overpowering admiration and affection for George Eliot. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z But George Eliot can make her dullest people interesting and dramatically effective. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z I have also spent a week under the same roof as George Eliot and G. H. Lewes. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z And here it seems profitable to contrast George Eliot's peculiar endowment as shown in these first stories, with that of Thackeray. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z At the house of G. H. Lewes he read “Guinevere,” “which made George Eliot weep.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z I like George Eliot not through her poem so much, not nearly so much, as through her prose. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z George Eliot's novels certainly are not run after and devoured by the average circulating library readers, as "The Woman in White," and "Lady Audley's Secret" were. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z In a nook by one of these windows Mrs. Leith Adams does her writing with the shades of George Eliot looking down on her, and a fine photograph of her youngest son now in Australia. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z And here we come upon a farther difference between George Eliot and Dickens of which we shall have many and beautiful examples in the works we have to study. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z It did not seem necessary to give much space to familiar authors, though I should have liked to do justice to Buckle, George Eliot, and Swinburne. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z Lord Acton's estimate of George Eliot may be found in some of the ensuing letters, and in the Nineteenth Century for March 1885. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z I am not one of the admirers of George Eliot who regret that she ventured on the production of a long poem. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z She delights especially in Ruskin, Darwin, Georges Sand, and George Eliot's works, which she says have solaced many an hour of pain and illness. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z In George Eliot's Theophrastus Such, one finds explicit mention of the trouble that had been caused to her by two of these: "With all possible study of myself," she says in the first chapter ... The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Her brother Will, who adored her, and had a large mind, declared when he came home from college that she was the greatest mistress of imaginative fiction since George Eliot. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Madame de Sta�l is the author of that saying about liberty, whom I commemorate in terms studiously excluding rivalry with George Eliot. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z We advise him to read George Eliot's review of Lecky's History of Rationalism. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z I am of opinion that had Jane Welsh Carlyle seen fit to make literature a profession, that she would have taken rank second only to that apostle of female culture and ambitions, George Eliot. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Every one will recognize as soon as it is mentioned the microscopic analysis of character throughout George Eliot as compared with the rapid cartoon-strokes by which Dickens brings out his figures. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z The Queen is clad in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while George Eliot wears robes of glory woven in the loom of her own genius. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z You evidently think that George Eliot is not the only novelist at whose feet I have sat, and that I have learned from "Endymion" the delicate art of flattery. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z It seems to me a greater book in every way than Romola, though I am not prepared to say that Mr. Howells is a greater novelist than George Eliot. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z George Eliot's new life and letters is well done, and we are not sorry we have read them. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z She was sick," says George Eliot, "of that barren exhortation, 'Do right and keep a clear conscience and God will reward you, etc.' The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z There used to be little notes in you that were like fine benevolent finger-marks of the good George Eliot—the echo of much reading of that excellent woman, here and there, that is, sounding through. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z I am ashamed to think how much more often I return to Dickens than to George Eliot. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Over and over again we have heard the statement that the "mantle" of George Eliot has fallen on Mrs. Ward. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z George Eliot must have experienced the spell of these tawny folk during her visit to Spain. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z And it is, finally, most interesting to find this change receiving clear expression, for the first time in English literature, in the works of the two women I have mentioned, Mrs. Browning and George Eliot. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z George Eliot, too, affected the masculine both in viewpoint and method—a bad habit which so grew upon her that her later novels are ponderous as political treatises, and devoid of human interest. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z If Sophocles or Cervantes had lived in the light of our culture, if Dante had prospered like Manzoni, George Eliot might have had a rival. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Deep philosophy and insight into character mark all George Eliot's writings. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z In our English fiction, I am inclined to believe that George Eliot began it with Daniel Deronda. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z In George Eliot all the domestic animals are true neighbors and are brought within the Master's exhortation: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," by the tenderness and deep humor with which she treats them. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z If no George Eliot was found in the previous chapter, so no Elizabeth Barrett Browning will be found in this. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z I hope you will read and like Mont�gut's articles on George Eliot, especially the second, in the Revue of March 15. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Lanier's "Development of the Novel" is practically only an enthusiastic study of George Eliot. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z “Oh well, Thackeray and George Eliot”—and her friend pleasantly bethought himself. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z In April, 1860, appeared George Eliot's second great novel, The Mill on the Floss. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Not so George Eliot's: for as simple imagination, I think that in the conception of this impressive and unreal figure it appears decidedly at its strongest. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z What I have seen is of such a kind that merely strung together with a few short notes, it would make a very interesting book: "Memorials of George Eliot." Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z George Eliot was never without readers, but Miss Braddon had more, and The Woman in White only one! Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z “When I read Thackeray and George Eliot how can I help minding?” Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z It was a happy thought of Mr. Blackwood's to call the book The Mill on the Floss; and George Eliot immediately adopted his suggestion to that effect. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z But in spite of Armgart's resignation, the moral atmosphere of the poem, like that of most of the others and like that of most of George Eliot's writings, is an almost gratuitously sad one. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z He was admitted to the homes of Ruskin, Rossetti, Morris, Darwin, and George Eliot, and allowed to see the wheels go round. Henry James 2011-09-05T02:00:22.877Z A certain man George Eliot describes, who had a sense of having had a liberal education until he tried to remember something! Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z One day I wrote a very careful review of a book that I admired greatly—it was George Eliot's 'Middlemarch,' in fact. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z And now, let us hear the words in which George Eliot begins to preach the "russet-coated epic" of everyday life and of commonplace people. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z George Eliot belongs to that class of pre-eminent writers in relation to whom the imagination comes to self-consciousness only to find itself in subjection. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z That idea I picked up when I corrected George Eliot's proofs, oh! so long ago!" one can imagine Mr James saying, "that idea that art must be ballasted by didacticism can't be true for me. Henry James 2011-09-05T02:00:22.877Z One of the best instances of achievement of cultivated speech is that of George Eliot, who by birth would have spoken a rich dialect. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z The method employed in the biography of George Eliot was, in my opinion—I can but state it—a vicious method. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Amid all these appellations I find myself most strongly attracted towards that of George Eliot. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z George Eliot's pictures of drawing-room life are only interesting when they are linked or related to scenes in the tavern parlour, the dairy, and the cottage. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z George Eliot once replied to a friend who asked her what was duty, that duty consisted in facing the hard things in life without taking opium. Health Through Will Power 2011-08-18T02:00:20.367Z We discover ourselves to be dissolved in laughter, and often it is "the exquisite laughter that comes from a gratification of the reasoning faculty," as George Eliot called it in one of her letters. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z George Eliot acutely remarks of one of her notably passionless characters, “His first opinions remained unchanged, as they always do with those in whom perception is stronger than thought and emotion.” Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z This, however, is what one must do when one passes from the many-petalled rose of George Eliot's fiction to the beginning of the English novel. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z I have come to the end of my space without speaking of Romola, which, as the most important of George Eliot's works, I had kept in reserve. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Hundreds of other women, like George Eliot, Charlotte Bront� and Helen Hunt will long continue to bring pleasure and profit to millions through their writings. Increasing Personal Efficiency 2011-07-31T02:00:10.480Z George Eliot in one of her novels tells us that "a difference of taste in jests is a great strain on the affections"—a profound truth. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z The subject of the gypsies was probably suggested to George Eliot by her own memorable adventure in childhood, which thus became the germ of a very impressive poem. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Now a strikingly similar contrast obtains as between George Eliot and Charles Dickens. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z I like George Eliot well enough, in fact, to admit, for the time, that I might have been in the wrong. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Had there not been large power of observation, we should never have had the works of George Eliot, Charlotte Bront�, Jane Austin, Helen Hunt, and all the other notable women creators of fiction. Increasing Personal Efficiency 2011-07-31T02:00:10.480Z More than acquaintanceship, I had affectionate regard for George Henry Lewes and George Eliot. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z George Eliot had the highest regard for Lewes's opinions, but held to her own. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z It is for this reason that George Eliot's work, as a whole, is so much finer than some of Dickens'. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z But George Eliot, we take it, has the musical sense in no small degree, and the origin of melody and harmony is here described in some very picturesque and sustained poetry. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z The most useful character George Eliot drew was that of Tito, who was wrecked because he had no sense that there was strength and safety in truth. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z George Eliot's personal reputation will hereafter be seen to be just and luminous. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z For passion, pathos, and poetic beauty of description, 'The Mill on the Floss' is certainly unique among George Eliot's works. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Of these demure, reserved, uneventful years of country existence it is, of course, impossible to lay before you any record; no life of George Eliot has yet been given to the public. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z The foremost feeling of many readers must have been—it was certainly my own—that we had hitherto only half known George Eliot. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z In Jane Austen, in Maria Edgeworth, and often also in George Eliot, we are delighted by little miracles of observation, and by little triumphs in the microscopic analysis of subtle and unsuspected motives. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Interest in social and political liberty was an abiding feature in George Eliot's mind. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z The 'Mill on the Floss,' which appeared in 1860, fully established George Eliot's popularity with the public. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot, somewhere in Adam Bede, has a mot: when a donkey sets out to sing, everybody knows beforehand what the tune will be. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z George Eliot's is a personality so enveloped in the mists of reflection that it is an uncommon sensation to find one's self in immediate contact with it. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z If my memory serves me truly, George Eliot dropped her faith in about the same length of time. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z When George Eliot saw the letter she said, "the thought of the Ruins of Education there described filled her with sadness." Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Indeed, for humour, for sheer force, for intense realism, George Eliot, in the immortal scene at the "Rainbow," may be said to rival Shakespeare. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Hereupon appeared a challenge from the still mythical George Eliot, inviting Mr. Liggins to make a fair test of his capacity by writing a chapter or two in the style of the disputed works. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z "Our deeds determine us," George Eliot says somewhere in Adam Bede, "as much as we determine our deeds." Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z The whole action may be summed up in George Eliot's own words. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z I had not seen George Eliot for some years, and was astonished at the stately grace she had acquired. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Another illustrious man, D. G. Rossetti, whose judgment on such a subject carries peculiar weight, considered George Eliot to have been much less successful in 'Romola' than in her novels of English country life. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z She talked of George Eliot's characters as one would of friends, and lovingly of Maggie Tulliver, that creation of a great woman's brain always tenderly loved by misfits such as Ann. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z A long word, however, is not an explanation, and, just here, George Eliot's expression "we map out our ignorance in long Greek names" is worth recalling. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Mrs. Poyser's good things were common property in the neighbourhood long before George Eliot crystallised them for all time, and embellished them by her matchless setting; and Dinah's sermon was not all imaginary. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z There is the Church Chartist by Canon Kingsley, and the Positivist Chartist by George Eliot, drawn by two famous artists. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z George Eliot's feeling for the extraordinary and romantic was very subordinate to that which she entertained for the more familiar aspects of our life. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot was always serious in mind, but there is a great difference in treatment between Scenes of Clerical Life and Daniel Deronda. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z George Eliot, at times, became so absorbed in her writing that it almost appeared to her that some other personality than her own was wielding the pen. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Any one who was an intelligent and wide-awake child at that time, and who can remember the talk of the excited elders, must remember things somewhat differently from what George Eliot has set down. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Whether it is good to die "in vain," as George Eliot held, I do not stay to determine. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z If an intimate and profound acquaintance with the laws and structure of metre could bestow this quality, which appertains to the elemental, George Eliot's verse ought to have achieved the highest success. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Mary Ann Evans, who adopted the nom de plume of George Eliot, was the daughter of an estate agent. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z That George Eliot should write a Florentine story at a time when Leighton was available to illustrate it, was certainly a most fortunate coincidence. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Mrs. Holt is a bad Mrs. Nickleby; and the comic chorus of rustic clowns, which George Eliot always introduces where she can, is comparatively poor. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z George Eliot, who had the Positivist reluctance to see the people act for themselves, wrote: "Ignorant power comes in the end to the same thing as wicked power." Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z In Gwendolen, George Eliot once remarked, she had wished to draw a girl of the period. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Apart from the moral and social aspects of the question, the influence of Lewes upon George Eliot’s literary career seems to have been mixed. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Unfortunately Leighton's letters to George Eliot respecting the "Romola" drawings cannot be found, and were probably destroyed before the author's death. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z It is in these grave and tender indications of love that George Eliot is at her best. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z I know of no instance of purity and generosity greater than that displayed by George Eliot in her relation with Mr. Lewes. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z In this depth and richness of humour George Eliot not only takes precedence of all other distinguished women, but she stands among them without a rival. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z It is at least possible that without such fostering care the genius of George Eliot would not have run so smooth and successful a course. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z On, past the Rossetti Fountain, and the house where the poet lived; and George Eliot's dull and drearsome residence. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z Felix himself is one of George Eliot's masterpieces in the way of nobleness of ideal and firmness of drawing. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z George Eliot did not come up to Herbert Spencer's conception of personal charm. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z In 'Janet's Repentance' we already discover one of George Eliot's favourite psychological studies—the awakening of a morally mixed nature to a new, a spiritual life. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot’s place is certainly among the great novelists. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z George Eliot had a great objection to her novels appearing in serial form, and she sacrificed much money by not first publishing them in the magazines. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Never spontaneous, as time went on George Eliot became painfully laboured. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z One who knew how to state a principle describes the characteristic conviction of George Eliot, from which she never departed, and which had abiding interest for me. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z A thousand writers might have got hold of these identical materials: a George Eliot alone could have cast these materials into the mould of 'Adam Bede.' Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot carries less of such impedimenta than many, but it will be well nevertheless to put aside at once such works as are neither in her special field nor in her best manner. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Previous to commencing a book George Eliot would read all she could find bearing on the subject. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z No book that George Eliot ever wrote is without its wise and pithy aphorisms, its brilliant flashes of wit, its innumerable good things. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Sir Leslie Stephen has written the most fascinating estimate of the writings and genius of George Eliot that has been produced. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z George Eliot never drew a more living figure than this of Hetty, hiding such a hard little heart under that soft dimpling beauty of hers. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z It must not indeed be pressed to mean that Mrs. Gaskell is the equal in genius, far less the superior, of writers like George Sand or George Eliot. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Even in fiction, the note of disillusionment is heard with increasing clearness, in the latest novels of George Eliot, in writers like Gissing, and in the later books of Thomas Hardy compared with the earlier. The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 2011-05-11T02:00:18.513Z George Eliot's power did not lie in the same direction as that of Charles Dickens, and the contrast is not to her advantage. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Despite the German rationalism of George Eliot, such fear found utterance in her Behind the Veil, a mystically occult contrast with her novels and with the positivism which was her religion. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z George Eliot is never dazzled or led away by her own bewitching creation as a man would have been. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z If her humour is not equal to the best specimens of that of George Eliot, it is more diffused; if less powerful, it is gentler and quite as subtle. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Dickens, Thackeray, Shakespeare, George Eliot, and a mighty host of others are waiting for the child who is old enough to understand them. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z It is the only tender and spontaneous moment in his life as George Eliot has painted it, and its strangeness makes its pathos as well as its truth. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Theoretically the philosophy of George Eliot should have destroyed much mysticism, yet as a survival of “night terrors” it came to the surface. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The amount of labour George Eliot expended on 'Romola' was so great, that it was the book which, she remarked to a friend, "she began a young woman and ended an old one." Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot herself was disposed to prefer Romola to all her other works; but she seems to have been swayed by the consideration that it had cost her more than any other book. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Where George Eliot attended school in her eighth or ninth year. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z The last of the lengthy three, and the last novel she wrote, "Daniel Deronda" is the most wearisome, the least artistic, and the most unnatural of all George Eliot's books. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z The young lady, sauntering down town to look at ribbons, never makes a George Eliot. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z George Eliot had an unconquerable aversion to her likeness being taken: once, however, in 1860, she was photographed for the sake of her "dear sisters" at Rosehill. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z But if the statement be true the fact is wonderful, for George Eliot had only spent about six weeks in Florence before she wrote the book. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z No doubt the artist came to realize more of the true womanliness of George Eliot’s character, for he certainly softened the expression of those determined-looking eyes. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Nor would the seduction by the young squire of a farmer's niece or daughter have been the heinous crime George Eliot has made it. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Like a kind fellow, send me George Eliot's new book. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Persons who were privileged enough to be admitted to the intimacy of George Eliot and Mr. Lewes could not fail to be impressed by the immense admiration which they had for one another. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z In those early years George Eliot skimmed the cream of her experience. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z I told him I meant to visit, so far as possible, the scenes of George Eliot’s novels and to photograph all the various places of interest. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z It is impossible here again to give adequate extracts of the wise, witty, tender and high-minded things scattered broadcast over this book—as, indeed, over all that George Eliot ever wrote. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z As to their prophetical value, we are hardly in a position to judge; we feel with George Eliot that of all the mistakes we commit, prophecy is probably the most gratuitous. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Had George Eliot really known of this tale—a tale feebly executed at the best—she would obviously have altered the name so as not to make her obligation too patent to the world. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Some of George Eliot’s books contain fresher pictures than we find here, but none contains more that dwell in the mind, and in none is her maturest thought so well expressed. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z It was curious to note how well George Eliot remembered it, for here was the full-length portrait of Sir Anthony Cheverel “standing with one arm akimbo,” exactly as described. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z George Eliot never did anything more remarkable than in the union she makes in this book between the most commonplace characters and the most majestic conception of tragic fate. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z We all must allow that at last, however tardily and surprisingly, George Eliot had discovered her true vocation. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Maggie Tulliver is George Eliot herself, but only one side, one portion, one phase of George Eliot's many-sided, vastly complex nature. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot was the last of the race of giants in fiction. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The doctor explained that the artist, when a young girl, had known George Eliot’s father and mother, and had been interested to paint various scenes of the earlier stories. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z No one theoretically knew human nature better than George Eliot. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z But, from the first, if we now examine coldly and inquisitively, there was a moth sleeping in George Eliot's rich attire. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The quality which distinguishes George Eliot's humour may be said to characterise her treatment of human nature generally. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Carlyle, Browning, Matthew Arnold, Thackeray and George Eliot, all in various ways teach that art must not ignore the intellectual problem. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z George Eliot wrote from memory, probably a full score of years after her last visit to the place, and this is one of several slight mistakes. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z It is in such "polite pea-shooting" as this that George Eliot shows her inimitable humour—the quick give-and-take of her conversations being always in harmony with her characters. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z At last George Eliot seems to have felt that she could never hope, with all her intellect, to catch the unconsidered music which God lavishes on the idle linnet and the frivolous chaffinch. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z But George Eliot contents herself with showing us the reverse side of the medal. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Those who were present on a certain occasion will not soon forget his rejoinder to "a gentleman in the company" who said that for truth to nature he went to George Eliot. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Our next objective was the birthplace of George Eliot, a small cottage standing in one corner of the park. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Whatever George Eliot did bears this impress of massive sincerity—of deep and earnest feeling—of lofty purpose and noble teaching. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z George Eliot is unduly neglected now, but it is the revenge of time on her for the praise expended on her works in her lifetime. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z These two men, of whom the one is the spiritual leader and the other the hero destined to realise his aspirations, are probably the two most unsuccessful of George Eliot's vast gallery of characters. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot was a woman, and she knew a woman’s heart when she wrote, ‘Deep, unspeakable suffering is a baptism, a regeneration—the initiation into a new state.’ The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z I had expected to find it at Griff House, near Nuneaton, the home of George Eliot’s girlhood, but the arbor at the end of the Yew Tree Walk was empty. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Her noblest work, "Romola" is yet one of George Eliot's most defective in what we may call the scaffolding of the building. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z In the later books it is an undeniable fact that George Eliot displays a certain sense of the inevitable progress of life which was new. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Indeed, George Eliot does not absolutely hold these views. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z For thirteen years Sir Isaac lived on Jermyn Street, London; then moved to Chelsea, a place dear to those who love George Eliot or admire Carlyle; and then to Martin Street, near Leicester Fields. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z It was curious to note, when we explored the village the next morning, that Ellastone is even now apparently just the same little hamlet it was in the time of George Eliot’s father. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z George Eliot's usually firm grip on character wavers into strange self-contradiction in her delineations of Esther Lyon. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Thither, indeed, I was vaguely invited, by word of mouth, to make my appearance one Sunday, George Eliot having read some pages of mine with indulgence. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z On the other hand, George Eliot's still dormant faculties were roused and stimulated to the utmost by the man to whom this union with her formed the most memorable year of his life. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z His whole literary career was one of unremitting industry; he wrote slowly, and like 'George Eliot,' gave forth his thoughts in such perfect form, that he rarely required to retouch his work. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z This friendship led to others, and the Gilchrists were soon introduced into that supreme literary circle which included Ruskin, Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, the Rossettis, Tennyson, and many another great mind of that illustrious age. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z For that matter indeed, no one has suffered from unmeasured adulation more than has George Eliot. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z It was chilly in the concert-room, and I watched George Eliot, in manifest discomfort, drawing up and tightening round her shoulders a white wool shawl. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The translation of Spinoza's 'Ethics' by George Eliot was also executed in the same year. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot did not receive this adventitious aid from romance, and her work was, perhaps, unduly burdened by ethical diatribe, scientific disquisition and moral and philosophical asides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Some authors get more ecstasy into their work when they write in prose than in verse, as readers of the novels and verse poems of Dickens, George Eliot and Thackeray are aware. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z "Adam Bede," the first novel proper of the long series, shows George Eliot at her best in her three most noteworthy qualities—lofty principles, lifelike delineation of character, and fine humour, both broad and subtle. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Hence the field was free for George Eliot, who, without haste or hesitation, built up slowly such a reputation as no one in her own time could approach. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z When she undertook to write about the Jews, George Eliot was deeply versed in Hebrew literature, ancient and modern. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z It was a town in which the characters described by Trollope or George Eliot or Jane Austen would have felt themselves at home. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z We also recall that Bagehot could see little difference between Tennyson's novels in verse and George Eliot's novels in prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Many were people personally known to George Eliot, and those who were at all behind the scenes recognised the portraits. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z It would be entirely unjust to accuse George Eliot, at all events until near the end of her life, of intellectual pride. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z George Eliot read but little contemporary fiction, being usually absorbed in the study of some particular subject. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z On the one hand, Lessing and George Eliot; on the other, the stock dramatist and novelist, with their low-comedy villain.' The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z The passage may not be passionate poetry, but it would not have been out of place in a novel by Stendhal, George Eliot or Meredith. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z By the way, did George Eliot know that "Baldassare" is the name of one of the devils invoked to this day by Sicilian witches? Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Among George Eliot's prose contemporaries there were several who obeyed this command. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Though George Eliot drew many of her ideas of moral cultivation from the doctrines of Comte's Philosophie Positive, she was not a Positivist in the strict sense of the word. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot's Life as related in her Letters and Journals. A Selection from the Poems of William Morris 2011-02-11T03:00:29.580Z "Children," says George Eliot, "may be strangled, deeds never; they have an indestructible life, both in mind and outside of our consciousness." Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z Yet for all the beauty of these philosophic passages there are too many of them in this as in all George Eliot's works. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Robert Browning, though an optimist, and too polite a man to oppose George Eliot publicly, was impatient of her oracular manner. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z This volume, not published till May 1879, was written before the incalculable loss which befell George Eliot in the autumn of the preceding year. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Jane Austen despised the greater number of her characters: George Eliot suffered with each of hers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Perhaps the most eloquent tribute to the power of the Imitation is found in George Eliot's novel, The Mill on the Floss. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z George Eliot undoubtedly made a chronological mistake in both stories by the amount of conscientious remorse felt by her young men, and the depth of social degradation implied in this slip of her young women. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Whether this was so or not would not matter to anyone, if George Eliot could have continued the act of pictorial reproduction without flagging. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z "For," writes George Eliot, "Tito was experiencing that inexorable law of human souls, that we prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil which gradually determines character." Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot was never orthodox again; she abandoned, with fierce determination, every creed, and although she passed, later, through various phases, she remained incessantly a rationalist in matters of faith and in all other matters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z George Eliot writes: “He was so withered and yellow that though he was not yet forty the children always called him ‘old master Marner.’” Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z They who think that Casaubon was meant for the late Rector of Lincoln know nothing about George Eliot's early life. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z The gay world, which forgets everything, has forgotten what a solemn, what a portentous thing was the contemporary fame of George Eliot. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z It is curious to compare George Sand's theory of love, in this instance, with George Eliot's. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Cross, a gentleman whose friendship was especially congenial to a temperament so abnormally dependent on affectionate understanding as George Eliot’s. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z George Eliot shows her deep appreciation of it in "The Mill on the Floss," where she says that "It works miracles to this day, turning bitter waters into sweetness." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The canvas is as crowded as one of George Cruikshank's etchings; and the work would have gained by what George Eliot would have called fission—a division into two. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z If I had time and space, it would be very interesting to study George Eliot's attitude towards that mighty woman, the full-bosomed caryatid of romantic literature, who had by a few years preceded her. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Few are the external events to be now recorded of George Eliot's life. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z But it should be remembered that Jane Austen dealt with familiar domestic types, whereas George Eliot excelled in the presentation of extraordinary souls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z It was this same sentiment that caused the Brontë sisters and George Eliot, as well as many other notable women, to write under pseudonyms. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z "One must be poor," George Eliot said, "To know the luxury of giving;" So too one really should be dead To realize the joy of living. Perverted Proverbs A Manual of Immorals for the Many 2011-01-01T03:00:23.337Z When George Eliot was at the outset of her own literary career, which as we know was much belated, George Sand had already bewitched and thrilled and scandalized Europe for a generation. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Besides these walks, George Eliot's chief recreation consisted in frequenting concerts and picture galleries. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z In every one of George Eliot’s books, the protagonists, tortured by dreams of perfection, are in revolt against the prudent compromises of the worldly. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Highgate Cemetery is one of the grandest Victorian graveyards in the UK, with the likes of Karl Marx and George Eliot interned in its ivy-covered vaults. Highgate cemetery 2010-12-27T07:23:40Z You can learn more about the way people really think and behave by reading Dickens or George Eliot than you can from ploughing through endless tracts analysing the marginal utility of consumers. Seasonal spending makes for merry Christmas ? but how happy will the new year be? 2010-12-27T00:02:01Z George Eliot, in 1848, was "bowing before George Sand in eternal gratitude to that great power of God manifested in her," and her praise of the French peasant-idyls was unbounded. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The "Felix Holt" of the story is described by George Eliot as shaping his actions much according to the ideas which are here theoretically expressed. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Dickens, on the other hand, who depicts contemporary English life, and mostly in the middle classes, in all his numerous works has only three; and George Eliot never once refers to a duel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z “It was a work by George Eliot that Clotilde had obtained from the library.” A Double Knot Thus when even George Eliot draws a coleopterist, he is made a feeble old man shuffling to and fro among his p. 202ridiculous beetles. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History That is the chanting faculty in prose, which all the greatest men possess; but George Eliot has no trace of it, except sometimes, faintly, in the sheer fun of her peasants' conversation. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z One of the papers, however, that entitled 'Debasing the Moral Currency,' expresses a strongly marked characteristic of George Eliot's mind. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z I would have there Thackeray and George Eliot and Wordsworth and Spenser, Malory and Homer and Cervantes and Shakespeare and Montaigne—oh, they should be shelves to rejoice the soul of the harassed reader! The Jonathan Papers George Eliot, too, has been able in the case of Stonyshire and Loamshire to give convincing names to counties, and never offends in the names of her characters, though they have no especial attractiveness. Springtime and Other Essays Heroine in pigtails, yearning with ambition to be George Sand or George Eliot or some of the great female scribblers. Cinderella Jane But George Eliot persisted, with that astounding firmness of application which she had, and she produced quite a large body of various verse. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z But George Eliot's was a nature that needed some one especially to love. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot, I believe, says somewhere that there never was brain inside a red-haired head. John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced But Jane Austen, like George Eliot, makes no pretence to be an artist in nomenclature. Springtime and Other Essays Her London salon included many of the literary and artistic celebrities of her day; she was George Eliot’s most intimate friend, and, according to her, the first to recognize the authorship of Adam Bede. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" But George Eliot, whatever may have been her preliminary enthusiasms, was radically and permanently anti-romantic. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z George Eliot's career has been habitually described as uniform and uneventful. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z George Eliot said long ago, “Important as it is to direct the industries of men, it is not so important as to wisely direct their leisure.” The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses There are passages in this book which the genius of George Eliot would be proud to own. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Would you seriously accuse Thomas Hardy and George Eliot of plagiarism, and say that they owed their plots to Goethe's 'Faust'? Rambles in Womanland But George Eliot showed, so far as records inform us, no such aptitude in infancy or even in early youth. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The 'Scenes of Clerical Life' were to George Eliot's future works what a bold, spirited sketch is to a carefully elaborated picture. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z I have been told that Emerson and George Eliot agreed in thinking Rousseau's “Confessions” the most interesting book they had ever read. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses George Eliot goes on to warn other young ladies that it is useless to try to imitate this proud little air, unless one has a throat like Gwendolen's. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu And is not the Adam Bede of George Eliot a variation of Goethe's Faust? Rambles in Womanland George Eliot in her contemplation of the human beings she invents is a traveller, who is provided with a map. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Rufus Lyon is a worthy addition to that long gallery of clerical portraits which are among the triumphs of George Eliot's art. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z And, after all, as George Eliot said, “The words of Genius bear a wider meaning than the thought which prompted them.” The Vagabond in Literature Though my faith was shaken, it was only when he urged me to read George Eliot that I became angry and disillusioned & worked myself into a quarrel or half-quarrel. Reveries over Childhood and Youth I don't think he ever read Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot, though he enjoyed Scott during the last months of his life. Aubrey Beardsley The effect of all this on George Eliot's achievement was what must always occur when an intellect which is purely acquisitive and distributive insists on doing work that is appropriate only to imagination. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z While the public had been trying to discover who the mysterious George Eliot could possibly be, one person there was who immediately penetrated the disguise, and felt positive as to the identity of the author. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Reflective writers like George Eliot or George Meredith are more often witty than humorous. The Vagabond in Literature George Eliot says that a difference of tastes in jokes is a strain on the affections. Her Royal Highness Woman The first volume in the 'Famous Women' series just begun by Roberts Brothers is a life of 'George Eliot,' by Mathilde Blind. Maria Edgeworth George Eliot admired Wordsworth very much: occasionally she reproduces very closely the duller parts of The Excursion. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z And the Dodson sisters are, in their way, among the most amazingly living portraitures that George Eliot ever achieved. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z No program on George Eliot would be complete without a brief presentation of her poetry. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Of some of the important events which took place here in the fifteenth century we may read in George Eliot's "Romola." Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction "Give us some more specimens from literature—George Eliot and Mr. Cross for example." Shadows of Flames A Novel After long consideration, I have come to the conclusion that the following sonnet, from Brother and Sister, is the best piece of sustained poetry that George Eliot achieved. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z It is therefore most likely that George Eliot never saw, and possibly never even heard of, 'Jermola the Potter.' Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z This appeared anonymously as a serial, and at the time was attributed to George Eliot, because she was thought to be the only living author capable of writing it. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Trace the development of the novel as shown in the works of Thackeray, Dickens, and George Eliot, with readings. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. George Eliot says somewhere that 'we can endure our worst sorrows but once'.... Shadows of Flames A Novel It was the fatal error of George Eliot, so admirable, so elevated, so disinterested, that for the last ten years of her brief literary life she did practically nothing but lay heavy loads on literature. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The monotonous tone in the narrative of this Polish novel is in strong contrast, it may be observed, to George Eliot's vivid and varied treatment of her subject. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Read from several of Mrs. Ward's earlier volumes and also some selections from George Eliot's Adam Bede and Romola. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Martin Luther, Schiller, Oliver Goldsmith and George Eliot all have birthdays to remember at this time. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. I soon received an answer, the result of which was that I went, on Lewes's invitation, to the Priory, North Bank, Regent's Park, and met my friend and his partner, better known as 'George Eliot.' My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. |
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