When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...
The Washington Post: ‘The Marriage Question’ looks at George Eliot through her long-lasting love
O’Shaughnessy crafts in her luminous debut an evocative portrait of English author George Eliot. After Marian Evans arrives in London from Coventry in 1851 to work on the Westminster Review, she falls ...
Explore the life and career of one of Britain's finest writers with this fascinating biographical documentary. Born Marian Evans, author George Eliot led an unconventional life in 19th-century England ...
The Conversation: George Eliot is best known for Middlemarch, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction
George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871) and Daniel ...
George Eliot is best known for Middlemarch, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction
The Conversation: George Eliot’s Middlemarch: egoism, moral stupidity, and the complex web of life
In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature. Middlemarch (1872) is a slow read and a deeply immersive one. George Eliot – the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) – ...
George Eliot’s Middlemarch: egoism, moral stupidity, and the complex web of life
In this psychological study of George Eliot, Frederick Karl draws a much more complex figure than the official portrait which Gordon Haight presented in his authoritative biography published in 1968.