George Eliot

1819 - 1880 *

novelist whose works captured human behaviour and endeavour in the Victorian era.

George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Anne or Marian Evans, captured life with a sensitivity that encompassed an understanding of human behaviour and relationships. She was sent to boarding school from the age of five and was influenced by the strict views expressed there. She became markedly self-critical.

After writing Adam Bede, she was forced to reveal her identity as someone else claimed to be the author. The success of this novel ensured her role as a novel of repute and she became very financially secure.

She observed the effects of the Industrial Revolution in her novels, and expressed doubts about Christianity. Eliot's relationship with Lewes was controversial and due to circumstances surrounding his divorce she was never able to marry him. As a result, she was ostracised from society.

Despite this, her fame overcame circumstances of her personal life.

Middlemarch is considered to be one of the finest works of prose in the English language.

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The Influence of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" on George Eliot's writing. -- Interpretation of 3 Eliot's novels: "The Mill on the Floss", "Daniel Deronda", "Middlemarch", and one poem "Brother and Sister" within the context of Darwin's work.
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Creeds of terror. -- Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot

A serious ape whom none take seriously,
Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nuts
By hard buffoonery. -- Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot

His smile is sweetened by his gravity. -- Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot

Certain winds will make men's temper bad. -- Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot

Sad as a wasted passion. -- Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot

Knightly love is blent with reverence
As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue. -- Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot

Inclination snatches arguments
To make indulgence seem judicious choice. -- Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot

Perhaps the wind
Wails so in winter for the summers dead,
And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries
For what has been and is not. -- Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot

Who can prove
Wit to be witty when with deeper ground
Dulness intuitive declares wit dull? -- A College Breakfast-party.

George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot

Oh may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence. -- Poems: Oh may I join the Choir invisible.

George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot

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