George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans, better known by the pen name George Eliot (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880), was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity.

Select bibliography

Works

• Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)
• Adam Bede (1859)
• The Lifted Veil (1859)
• The Mill on the Floss (1860)
• Silas Marner (1861)
• Romola (1863)
• Brother Jacob (1864)
• Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
• The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
• Agatha (1869)
• Brother and Sister (1869)
• The Legend of Jubal (1870)
• Armgart (1871)
• Middlemarch (1871)
• Arion (1874)
• A Minor Prophet (1874)
• Stradivarius (1874)
• Daniel Deronda (1876)
• A College Breakfast Party (1879)
• The Death of Moses (1879)
• Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)
• Early Essays (1919)

She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

(Collected Poems - ISBN 1871438403)

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Biography

• Haight, Gordon S., George Eliot: A Biography, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1968.
• Haight, Gordon S., ed., George Eliot: Letters, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1954.
• Uglow, Jennifer, George Eliot, London, Virago, 1987.

Context and Background

• Beer, Gillian, Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.
• Beer, Gillian, George Eliot, Brighton, Harvester, 1986.
• Chapman, Raymond, The Sense of the Past in Victorian Literature, London, CroomHelm, 1986.
• Cosslett, Tess, The 'Scientific Movement' and Victorian Literature, Brighton, Harvester, 1982.
• Gilbert, Sandra M., and Gubar, Susan, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1979.
• Jay, Elisabeth, The Religion of the Heart: Anglican Evangelicalism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1979.
• Pinney, Thomas, ed., Essays of George Eliot, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963.
• Shuttleworth, Sally, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984.
• Willey, Basil, Nineteenth-Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold, London, Chatto & Windus, 1964.
• Williams, Raymond, The Country and the City, London, Chatto & Windus, 1973.

Critical Studies

• Ashton, Rosemary, George Eliot, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1983.
• Beaty, Jerome, Middlemarch'from Notebook to Novel: A Study of George Eliot's Creative Method, Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois, 1960.
• Carroll, David, ed., George Eliot: The Critical Heritage, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971.
• Daiches, David, George Eliot: Middlemarch, London, Edward Arnold, 1963.
• Dentith, Simon, George Eliot, Brighton, Harvester, 1986.
• Garrett, Peter K., The Victorian Multiplot Novel: Studies in Dialogical Form, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1980.
• Graver, Suzanne, George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form, Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1984.
• Harvey, W. J, The Art of George Eliot, London, Chatto & Windus, 1961.
• Kettle, Arnold. An Introduction to the English Novel, vol. I, London, Hutchinson, 1951.
• Leavis, F RThe Great Tradition, London, Chatto & Windus, 1948.
• Neale, Catherine, Middlemarch: Penguin Critical Studies,London, Penguin, 1989
• Swinden, Patrick, eel., George Eliot: Middlemarch, London, Macmillan, 1972.