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22 de jul. de 2008 · George Eliot. (1819-1880) Tue 22 Jul 2008 10.39 EDT. 1819-1880. "The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."
A more recent biography of her by Kathryn Hughes is called George Eliot: the Last Victorian (1998). The contrasting titles seem to sum up well the life of this complex, intelligent woman. You can listen to Radio 4’s In Our Time on her masterpiece Middlemarch here.
If George Eliot the woman was susceptible to the conventions and comforts of respectability, George Eliot the writer built her art from a refusal of such conventions, resisting the moral complacency and didacticism of which she has often been accused. Eliot fits neither conventionally defined aesthetic nor political positions.
19 de mar. de 2023 · The woman we know as George had more than a double life: she made her way through Victorian patriarchy by any aliases necessary. Like Jane Eyre ’s Rochester, Lewes was ugly yet (or so Carlisle ...
Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) y la crítica victoriana: una comparación con la obra crítica de Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) y George Eliot (1819-1880) escrita durante las décadas de 1850-1860. BOLETÍN DE LA BIBLIOTECA DE MENÉNDEZ PELAYO, Vol. 97, Issue. 2, p. 295.
Middlemarch by George Eliot (real name: Mary Ann Evans), was first published in 1871. The novel is set in the fictitious English town of Middlemarch during 1829–1832, and follows several distinct, intersecting stories with a large cast of characters. It is one of Five Books’ most recommended books.
George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans in rural Warwickshire and was unusually well-educated for a woman of her time. A controversial figure during her life, Eliot published translations as well as prose and poetry, all but one under her adopted pseudonym. Among her themes are music; art as an activity of unfathomable human worth; the notion that the past shapes the present; and the conflict in ...
