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18 de ago. de 2017 · In Eliot’s Victorian afterlives in fictionalized biographies, 3 much attention is paid to the very English sex scandal behind Eliot’s new husband, 20 years her junior, jumping into a Venice canal to escape the honeymoon suite, after which he returned to England and was hospitalized for stress. 4 When you are “George Eliot,” what happens in Venice doesn’t stay in Venice. 5 The less ...
28 de mai. de 2019 · George Eliot’s (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880) pivotal position in the history of the novel is attested by some of the most distinguished novelists. Reviewing Middlemarch in 1873, Henry James concluded, “It sets a limit, we think, to the development of the old-fashioned English novel”; Middlemarch does, indeed, take what James ...
19 de mar. de 2023 · Two years after Lewes’s death aged 61 in 1878, George Eliot got married. John Cross was a banker 20 years her junior and had doubled her bank balance with canny investments.
4 de set. de 2023 · By James Wood. September 4, 2023. When the novelist turned away from holy writ, marriage—and the sanctified text of the novel—became the center of her moral universe. Illustration by Fabien ...
George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was a prominent English novelist, poet, journalist, and translator who made a profound contribution to British heritage through her literary works. As one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, she played a significant role in shaping the landscape of English literature during her time and continues to be celebrated as a literary icon in ...
Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in the spring of 1880.
21 de nov. de 2019 · Henry James called her a ‘great, horse-faced bluestocking’. On the 200th anniversary of her birth, we celebrate George Eliot, a literary trailblazer with an endless appetite for ideas, living ...
