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George Eliot

George Eliot, was an English novelist and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. (Source.)

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English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)

Born 22 November 1819
Died 22 December 1880

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  • Cover of: Silas Marner

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  • Cover of: Middlemarch

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  • Cover of: The mill on the Floss.
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  • Cover of: Adam Bede
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  • Cover of: Daniel Deronda: a novel
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  • Cover of: Romola.
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  • Cover of: Scenes of clerical life
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  • Cover of: Felix Holt: The Radical (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
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  • Cover of: The works of George Eliot.
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  • Cover of: The George Eliot letters
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    First published in 1954 — 27 editions
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  • Cover of: Impressions of Theophrastus Such
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  • Cover of: The Spanish gypsy: a poem
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  • Cover of: Adam Bede Illustrated

    First published in 2020 — 21 editions
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  • Cover of: George Eliot's life as related in her letters and journals.
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  • Cover of: Lifted Veil Illustrated

    First published in 2020 — 16 editions
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  • Cover of: Scenes of clerical life
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  • Cover of: Mill on the Floss Illustrated

    First published in 2020 — 15 editions
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  • Cover of: The works of George Eliot...
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  • Cover of: Adam Bede Illustrated

    First published in 2021 — 14 editions
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  • Cover of: George Eliot's works
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English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)

Born 22 November 1819
Died 22 December 1880

Subjects

Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Social life and customs, English literature, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Eliot, george, 1819-1880, Manners and customs, English Novelists, Young women, Fathers and daughters, Fiction, psychological, Young women, fiction, English fiction, History, Siblings, fiction, Carpenters, Correspondence, Infanticide, Women clergy, Classic Literature, Fiction, general, Literature, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Children's fiction

Places

England, Florence (Italy), Florence, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Northern England, Thrushcross Grange, Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire, Yorkshire (England), Angleterre, Angleterre (GB), Clergy, Grande-Bretagne, Inglaterra, Russia, Spain, United States, Ying guo, boston

People

George Eliot (1819-1880), Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), J. W. Cross (1840-1924), Edward Young (1683-1765), Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), John Cumming (1807-1881), William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838-1903), Catherine Earnshaw, Cathy Linton, Edgar Linton, Heathcliff, Hindley Earnshaw, Isabella Linton, Joseph, Linton Heathcliff, Mr Lockwood, Nelly Dean, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823-1897), Zillah, A. Beresford, Elma Fraser Stuart, Elma Stuart, Girolama Savonarola (1452-1493), Jesus Christ, Lorenzo de' Medici

Time

19th century, 1421-1737, 1801, 1830-32, 19th Century, 1870-1914, 1883, 18th century, 19e siècle

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Alternative names

  • Mary Ann Evans
  • Mary Anne Mary Ann, Marian Evans
  • GEORGE ELIOT
  • Eliot/George
  • Eliot, George, pseud. i.e. Marian Evans, Afterwards Cross
  • Eliot George 1819-1880
  • George eiliot
  • George Elliot
  • Eliot, George pseud. van Mary Ann Evans
  • George George Eliot
  • george eliot

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