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George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her novels are known for their realism, psyc…
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culture · English novelist and poet (1819–1880) · novelist · translator · philosopher · writer · poet · journalist · essayist · editor · also George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans, Marian Evans, Mary Anne Evans Cross, Mary Anne Cross, Marian Cross
Born 22 November 1819 · Died 22 December 1880 · Q131333
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An accomplished woman almost always knows more than we men, though her knowledge is of a different sort. I am sure you could teach me a thousand things--as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language between them. Happily, there is a common language between women and men, and so the bears can get taught.
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2026· 8 entries
“[T]here's allays two 'pinions; there's the 'pinion a man has of himsen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on him. There'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell, if the bell could hear itself.”
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“An accomplished woman almost always knows more than we men, though her knowledge is of a different sort. I am sure you could teach me a thousand things--as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language between them. Happily, there is a common language between women and men, and so the bears can get taught.”
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“Give me no light, great heaven, but such as turns To energy of human fellowship; No powers save the growing heritage That makes complete manhood.”
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“There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.”
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The Economic Times: Pet Quote by George Eliot, 'Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticism' shows timeless human connection, kindness, empathy, companionship
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Mint: Quote of the day by George Eliot: ‘What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel…’
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The Guardian: Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama
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2024· 1 entry
The New Criterion: The rebel George Eliot
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2023· 6 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘The Marriage Question’ Review: George Eliot’s Devotion
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The Guardian: Where to start with: George Eliot
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The Guardian: The Marriage Question review – the biographer George Eliot deserves
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The Guardian: The Marriage Question by Clare Carlisle review – the lives and loves of George Eliot
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The Guardian: I was a student far from home when George Eliot taught me to consider the perspectives of others
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The overdue publication of Spinoza's Ethics was a real shame, because it could have provided some illuminating cues for understanding the more mature works of the writer
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2022· 1 entry
The Atlantic: George Eliot's Life
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2020· 1 entry
CNN: ‘George Eliot’ among 25 female writers being republished using their real names
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2019· 2 entries
Mental Floss: 15 Intriguing Facts About George Eliot
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The Conversation: George Eliot: 200 years on, valuable lessons for today’s millennials and baby boomers
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2015· 2 entries
Writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels "by a landslide"
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A new residence hall was named after Evans at Royal Holloway University of London, successor to Bedford College, which Evans attended in 1850-1
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2012· 1 entry
The New Yorker: Seeing Where George Eliot Came From
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2011· 1 entry
The New Yorker: Gems from George Eliot
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2009· 1 entry
The Times of Israel: George Eliot & Cosima Wagner
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2007· 1 entry
“Was Jesus Christ a Palestinian insurgent?”
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1994· 1 entry
Literary critic Harold Bloom placed Eliot among the most important Western writers of all time
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1981· 1 entry
Eliot's translation of Spinoza's Ethics was finally published by Thomas Deegan, and was determined to be in the public domain in 2018 and published by the George Eliot Archive
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1980· 1 entry
On the centenary of her death, a memorial stone was established for her in the Poets' Corner between W
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1919· 1 entry
“A College Breakfast-party, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)”
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1903· 1 entry
“Novels of George Eliot: Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner - Página 255, de George Eliot - Publicado por Harper & brothers, 1903 - 497 páginas”
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1895· 3 entries
“George Eliot's Works - Página 94, de George Eliot - Publicado por Estes and Lauriat, 1895”
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“Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 563”
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“George Eliot's Works - Página 312, de George Eliot - Publicado por Estes and Lauriat, 1895”
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1883· 1 entry
“Unsigned article reprinted in The Essays of “George Eliot.” Complete. (1883)”
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1880· 15 entries
Died 1880-12-22.
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“Ninguém pode ser sábio de estômago vazio.”
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“Sag ihnen, ich habe starke Schmerzen an der linken Seite." - Letzte Worte, 22. Dezember 1880, zu ihrem Mann John W. Cross; sie meinte die Ärzte”
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“Debe uno ser pobre para conocer el lujo de dar».[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving].”
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“No man can be wise on an empty stomach”
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“Gli animali sono amici così piacevoli: non fanno domande, non criticano.”
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“¿De qué le sirve a un hombre la oportunidad si no sabe aprovecharla?”
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“Pseudonym von Mary Ann Evans, englische Schriftstellerin”
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“The real drama of Evangelicalism—and it has abundance of fine drama for any one who has genius enough to discern and reproduce it—lies among the middle and lower classes; and are not Evangelical opinions understood to give an especial interest in the weak things of the earth, rather than in the mighty?”
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“Bendito sea el hombre que no teniendo nada que decir, se abstiene de demostrárnoslo con sus palabras».[Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact].”
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“Dio è inconcepibile, l'immortalità incredibile, ma il dovere è perentorio e assoluto.”
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“The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.”
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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
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“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - ...”
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“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
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1879· 1 entry
“Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Ch, 4 (1879); comparable to. James Russell Lowell 1871: Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”
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1878· 1 entry
“Comments on The Lifted Veil with a motto for it used in the "Cabinet Edition" of her works (1878), in a letter to John Blackwood (28 February 1873), published in George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals (1885), Vol. 4”
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1877· 2 entries
When they were introduced to Princess Louise, the daughter of Queen Victoria
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“Journal entry, December 31, 1877”
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1876· 1 entry
After which she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey
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1875· 1 entry
“Letter to Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of the artist Edward Burne-Jones (1875)”
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1871· 2 entries
“Middlemarch (1871), Chapter 44”
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“Middlemarch (1871), Chapter 72”
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1870· 1 entry
Responded enthusiastically to Lady Amberley's feminist lecture on the claims of women for education, occupations, equality in marriage, and child custody
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1868· 2 entries
“The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem - Página 206, de George Eliot - Publicado por Ticknor and Fields, 1868 - 287 páginas”
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Supported philosopher Richard Congreve's protests against governmental policies in Ireland and had a positive view of the growing movement in support of Irish home rule
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1866· 1 entry
“Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)”
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1865· 1 entry
“The Influence of Rationalism”
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1861· 2 entries
Eliot expressed sympathy for the Union cause, something which historians have attributed to her abolitionist sympathies
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“Silas Marner (1861), Chapter 18”
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1859· 5 entries
“Fontes: Adam Bede (1859), Chapter XXI; Revista Caras, Edição 665.”
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“Adam Bede: Volume 2 - Página 60, George Eliot - Tauchnitz, 1859”
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“Adam Bede (1859), Chapter LIII”
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“The Lifted Veil (1859); Eliot here quotes the Latin epitaph of Jonathan Swift, translated as "Where savage indignation can lacerate his heart no more" · The Lifted Veil online at Wikisource”
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“Letter to Charles Bray (5 July 1859)”
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1858· 3 entries
“Janet's Repentance" Ch. 10 in Scenes of Clerical Life (1858); this has appeared in paraphrased form as: "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
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“Scenes of clerical life - Página 145, George Eliot - William Blackwood and Sons, 1858”
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“Scenes of Clerical Life (1858), Book 3, Chapter 19”
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1857· 2 entries
“Letter to Charles Bray (15 November 1857)”
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When she was thirty-seven years of age, "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton", the first of the three stories included in Scenes of Clerical Life, and the first work of "George Eliot", was published in Blackwood
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1856· 4 entries
“Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”
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But which was not published in her lifetime because the prospective publisher refused to pay the requested £75
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“Silly Novels by Lady Novelists', The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. X, No. II (1 October 1856), p. 457”
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“The Natural History of German Life”
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1851· 1 entry
And by 1854 they had decided to live together
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1839· 1 entry
“Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy - Página 47, George Eliot - Belford, 1839 - 504 páginas”
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1836· 1 entry
Her mother died and Evans (then sixteen) returned home to act as housekeeper, though she continued to correspond with her tutor Maria Lewis
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1819· 1 entry
Born 1819-11-22.
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