George Eliot
Mary Anne (alternatively Mary Ann or Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
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... Hetty Sorrel is a major character in George Eliot's novel Adam Bede (1859) ... Aside from her great physical beauty, George Eliot takes care to make it clear that she does not have many attractive personal qualities ... to English Literature (1967), "the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of ...
... I of England) 1941 Joyce Cary, A House of Children 1941 John Gore, King George V (George V) 1942 Arthur Waley, Translation of Monkey by Wu Cheng'en 1942 Lord Ponsonby of. 1956 Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond 1956 St John Greer Ervine, George Bernard Shaw (George Bernard Shaw) 1957 Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly's ... Eliot 1958 Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney (Fanny Burney) 1959 Morris West, The Devil's Advocate 1959 Christopher Hassall, Edward Marsh (Edward Marsh) 1960 Rex Warner, Imperial Caesar 1960 ...
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... The hamlet has links with George Eliot's family, the Evans ... George Eliot's father, Robert Evans, was born in Roston Common and sang in the choir at Norbury church, and most of George Eliot's paternal ancestors are buried there ... Dinah Morris (based on George Eliot’s aunt, Elizabeth Evans) preached here ...
... Scenes of Clerical Life is sympathetic to the Church and its ministers, however Eliot "was too secure in her own naturalistic ethics to need to become crudely anti-religious ... During the period that George Eliot depicts in Scenes of Clerical Life religion in England was undergoing significant changes ... in the early 19th century Midlands that George Eliot would later depict various religious ideas can be identified the tension between the Established and the Dissenting ...
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