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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

writer of Middlemarch

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George Eliot

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism/stephenl_geliot/gel...

Book-length work of biorgaphy and criticism of Eliot's works.

Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism

Author: Leslie Stephen

From: 1902

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George Eliot

http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/blind/geoeliot.html

Book-length work of biorgaphy of Eliot, with commentary and criticism.

Contains: Full Bio, Commentary, Criticism

Author: Blind, Mathilde

From: London: W.H. Allen and Co., 1883

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George Eliot and the Visual Arts

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/artov.html

"This study of George Eliot's pictorialism will begin with a biographical chapter surveying her knowledge of art, artists, and the literature of art. The next two chapters will characterize her taste in painting and sculpture and discuss the role of painting in her theory of the novel -- her version of the traditional doctrine of ut pictura poesis. These backgrounds having been fixed, the remaining chapters will focus upon the actual uses of painting in her fiction, examining the four principal genres that she loved to recreate: portraiture, sacred and heroic history painting, genre painting, and landscape."

Contains: Criticism

Author: Hugh Witemeyer

From: The Victorian Web New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979

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George Eliot: Symbol, Image, Motif

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/imageov.html

This site from Victorian web contains a number of well-written undergraduate student essays under the direction of Professor George Landow.

Contains: Commentary, Criticism

From: Victorian Web

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Jamaica, Genealogy, George Eliot: Inheriting the Empire After Morant Bay

http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v1i1/watson.htm

This essay looks at the changes in ideology about race and ancestry inVictorian, with particular reference to the Morant Bay revolt inJamaica and an analysis of the changing attitudes displayed in theworks of George Eliot. The article looks at the body of Eliot'swriting, but pays special attention to her 1866 novel, FelixHolt.

Contains: Criticism, Bibliography

Author: Timothy Watson

From: Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies Vol 1, Issue 1

Keywords: historical context, race, Victorian

 

The Political and Social Novel: Disraeli, Charles Kingsley, Mrs. Gazskell, "George Eliot"

http://www.bartleby.com/223/index.html#11

This lengthy analysis of the authors' lives and work includes sections on "The reaction against Romanticism", "Benjamin Disraeli", "Charles Kingsley ", "KingsleyÕs lectures and essays", "Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell", and "George Eliot; Her early years."

Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography

Author: Sir A. W. Ward

From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XIII: English, The Victorian Age, Part One, The Nineteenth Century, II

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Biographical sites about George Eliot

'Dear Old Griff': Early Years, 1819-28

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hughes-eliot.html

This first chapter from a biography on Eliot discusses the author's childhood.

Contains: Extensive Bio

Author: Kathryn Hughes

From: George Eliot: The Last Victorian Chapter 1; Farrar Straus Giroux: 1998

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George Eliot: Biographical Materials

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/bioov.html

This site from Victorian web contains a number of well-written undergraduate student essays under the direction of Professor George Landow.

Contains: Full Bio

From: Victorian Web

Keywords: life, history, biography

 

 
Other sites about George Eliot

Chronological list by date of publication of George Eliot's Novels, Short Stories and Poems

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/

This list of works contains links to online text versions, including searchable online texts.

Contains: Works List, Timeline

Author: Peter Batke

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The Novels of George Eliot

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/ghindex.html

Searchable full text of George Eliot's novels.

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Portrait of George Eliot

http://www.inform.umd.edu/Pictures/WomensStudies/PictureGallery/eliot.html

A portrait of George Eliot.

Contains: Pictures

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