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Jan Jedrzejewski
A guide to one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period - George Eliot, introducing the contexts and many interpretations of her work. This volume is…
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Hermann Conrad
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
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Hourly History
Discover the remarkable life of George Eliot...George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans in the same year as Queen Victoria. At the time, the role of women was well-defined and…
Josephine McDonagh
In this new study, which draws on the findings of recent literary scholarship, Josephine McDonagh shows how George Eliot needs to be recognized, not as an uncritical traditionalist, but as…
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Ian Adam (University of Calgary, Canada)
Reprint of edition published in 1969 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
Mathilde Blind
As the first biography of Eliot, Blind’s 1883 work represents a successful contemporary’s interpretation of the life and works of the renowned author. This work carefully examines Eliot’s early life…
Leslie Stephen
This volume was originally published as part of the English Men of Letters series in 1902. Written by scholar Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), this volume examines the life and literary…
R. T. Jones
Mr Jones treats the main novels in chronological sequence examining with the aid of extensive quotation George Eliot’s means of description and characterisation and the moral purpose of her fiction.
This is the first full-length biography of George Eliot, published just three years after her death, by a freethinking German-Jewish emigre and proto-feminist.
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Jenny Uglow
One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite…
George Eliot
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard…
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Benedictus de Spinoza
An authoritative edition of George Eliot’s elegant translation of Spinoza’s greatest philosophical work In 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza’s Ethics while living in Berlin with…
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Gatens
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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A tale of quiet lives in an early 19th-century English provincial town which engages the reader at every level, from the author’s chronicle of everyday details to the most exacting…
Henry James
‘But the partic'larest thing of all, ’ pursues Mr. Macey, ‘is, as nobody took any notice on it but me, and they answered straight off Yes, like as if it…
Barbara Hardy
With essays that span the full range of Eliot’s career, this volume considers Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot’s life…
First published in 1973 Critics on George Eliot brings together a selection of the best critical essays and discussions on the novels of George Eliot, including many that are not…
David Kaufmann
The Essays of George Eliot from George Eliot. English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era (1819-1880).
Oscar Browning
John Walter Cross
This book is a collection of works by the renowned author George Eliot. It features her last published work, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, along with a selection of essays and…
A selection of George Eliot’s essays collected, arranged and with an introduction by Nathan Sheppard. First published in 1883.
Oliver Lovesey
This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms.
In this collection of stories, George Eliot brings to life the daily struggles and triumphs of the clergy in England. Her writing is both poignant and insightful, drawing the reader…
Mike Edwards
This volume guides students through Eliot’s most widely studied novels: The Mill on the Floss , Silas Marner and Middlemarch . The first part of the book is based on…
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Anonymous
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Mary Ann Evans
A masterpiece of Victorian literature, George Eliot's Middlemarch is a sprawling and epic novel that explores the lives and ambitions of a diverse cast of characters living in a small…
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Original Publisher: Harper
A. Thompson
This study considers George Eliot’s novels in relation to Dante and to nineteenth-century Italian culture during the Italian national revival and shows how these helped shape her fiction.
Wendy S. Williams
The position of George Eliot’s poetry within Victorian poetry and within her own canon is crucial for an accurate picture of the writer, as Wendy S. Williams shows in her…
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Kathy O'Shaughnessy
What every lover of George Eliot’s work wants: a new novel made from her life and mind