Download or read book My Life in Middlemarch written by Rebecca Mead and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not. In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written. Employing a structure that deftly mirrors that of the novel, My Life in Middlemarch takes the themes of Eliot's masterpiece--the complexity of love, the meaning of marriage, the foundations of morality, and the drama of aspiration and failure--and brings them into our world. Offering both a fascinating reading of Eliot's biography and an exploration of the way aspects of Mead's life uncannily echo that of Eliot herself, My Life in Middlemarch is for every ardent lover of literature who cares about why we read books, and how they read us.
Download or read book The Life of George Eliot written by Nancy Henry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work. A fresh look at George Eliot's captivating life story Includes original new analysis of her writing Deploys the latest biographical research Combines literary criticism with biographical narrative to offer a rounded perspective
Download or read book George Eliot written by Rosemary Ashton and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly enjoyable biography of the great Victorian novelist reminds us how truly revolutionary was George Eliot... [Ashton] provides luminously sane readings of the marvellous novels.' A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard 'Excellent... Ashton cites Eliot's achievement in a literary landscape which moves from Scott and George Sand to Dickens, Tennyson and Browning... a fluent, vivid book... it makes one thrill again to the breadth of Eliot's genius and the passionate, vulnerable nature that accompanied her wide-ranging mind.' Jenny Uglow, Independent on Sunday 'An extremely impressive work... the George Eliot who emerges from Professor Ashton's book is a remarkable woman of exceptional integrity whose life expresses the spirit of the Victorian age, even as it goes against the very grain of it.' Susie Boyt, Sunday Express
Download or read book George Eliot s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Eliot s Life written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She authored seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
Download or read book George Eliot s Life written by George Eliot and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE as related in her Letters and Journals, ARRANGED AND EDITED BY HER HUSBAND J. W. CROSS. Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature. Includes vintage illustration!
Download or read book George Eliot s Life as Related in her Letters and Journals written by George Eliot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in the spring of 1880. While these volumes offer a valuable insight into Eliot's private reflections, what is perhaps most telling is the material left out or rewritten in Cross' efforts to lend his wife's unconventional life some respectability, which he does at the expense of what one reviewer described as Eliot's 'salt and spice'. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature. Volume 3 focuses on Eliot's final years, including her later literary success, travels in Spain, the death of G. H. Lewes, and her marriage to Cross.
Download or read book The Journals of George Eliot written by George Eliot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Victorian novelist's complete surviving journals - first publication of new George Eliot text.
Download or read book GEORGE ELIOTS LIFE AS RELATED written by George 1819-1880 Eliot and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book George Eliot s Life Complete written by George Eliot and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter I. In the foregoing introductory sketch I have endeavored to present the influences to which George Eliot was subjected in her youth, and the environment in which she grew up; I am now able to begin the fulfilment of the promise on the titlepage, that the life will be related in her own letters; or, rather, in extracts from her own letters, for no single letter is printed entire from the beginning to the end. I have not succeeded in obtaining any between 6th January, 1836, and 18th August, 1838; but from the latter date the correspondence becomes regular, and I have arranged it as a continuous narrative, with the names of the persons to whom the letters are addressed in the margin. The slight thread of narrative or explanation which I have written to elucidate the letters, where necessary, will hereafter occupy an inside margin, so that the reader will see at a glance what is narrative and what is correspondence, and will be troubled as little as possible with marks of quotation or changes of type. The following opening letter of the series to Miss Lewis describes a first visit to London with her brother: [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Lewis, 18th Aug. 1838.] Let me tell you, though, that I was not at all delighted with the stir of the great Babel, and the less so, probably, owing to the circumstances attending my visit thither.
Download or read book George Eliot written by Blanche Colton Williams and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Eliot s Life written by George Eliot and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE as related in her Letters and Journals, ARRANGED AND EDITED BY HER HUSBAND J. W. CROSS. Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature. Includes vintage illustration!
Download or read book The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans written by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful religious skepticism; her decision to elope with the married writer George Henry Lewes; and her marriage with John Cross after Lewes's death. Bodenheimer also discusses the rumor campaign that led to the discovery that "George Eliot" was a woman, and she traces the trajectory of Eliot's impassioned conflict between her ambition and her womanhood.
Download or read book George Eliot s Life written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She authored seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
Download or read book George Eliot s Life Complete written by George Eliot and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-26 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Download or read book George Eliot s Life Volume 3 Illustrated written by George Eliot and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare edition with unique illustrations. Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature.
Download or read book The Complete Works of George Eliot written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
