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13 de set. de 2020 · George Eliot, a escritora cuja vida (e obra) escandalizou o século 19 - BBC News Brasil. Hephzibah Anderson. BBC Culture. 13 setembro 2020. Getty Images. Mary Ann Evans, mais conhecida pelo...
19 de nov. de 2019 · Yet it was Eliot who truly scandalised society when she decided to openly cohabit with the still-married Lewes. So lurid was the moral stain that Eliot couldn’t risk seeing female friends without...
George Eliot: A scandalous life 1/6. ksotikoula. 2.02K subscribers. Subscribed. 540. 180K views 15 years ago. A documentary produced by BBC in 2002 and broadcasted by the TV channel of Greek ...
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13 de ago. de 2023 · George Eliot’s Scandalous Answer to ‘The Marriage Question’. In a new book, Clare Carlisle considers the powerful partnership between the Victorian novelist and the de facto husband who tended...
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- A ‘Great, Horse-Faced Bluestocking’
- Her Practical Humanism
- Middlemarch - The Greatest Novel in The English Language
Born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, on November 22, 1819, the third daughter of Robert and Christiana Evans, Eliot was afforded the sort of education not usually granted to women in this period. She was not considered physically attractive, and her father believed this would severely limit her prospects of marriage. In 1850, Eliot – then calli...
In 1854, Eliot translated Ludwig Feurerbach’s The Essence of Christianity, in which he declared God to be a figment of the human imagination. Instead, he wanted to think about what he called “species being” – that is, to consider what it means to think from the standpoint of being human, of being part of the wider social fabric. Feurerbach’s ideas ...
Middlemarch was published serially in eight parts at two monthly intervals from December 1871. It went on sale in December 1872 as four volumes for two guineas, selling 8,500 copies. But it was only when the cheap edition went on sale in 1874 that the novel found its real audience, selling another 31,000 copies by 1878. The story - like those found...
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14 de jun. de 2004 · We investigate the rumours and scandals that still surround George Eliot, the Nuneaton writer that refused to live by Victorian rules.
27 de jun. de 2024 · Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John 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 1880.
