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George Eliot

Female : Novelist. Lived with writer George H. Lewes until his death. Brought up his 3 children. Became agnostic 1842. Married J W Cross 1880
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Griff, Warwickshire

Date of Birth : 1819 Date of Death : 1880 Age : 61

Pseudonyms : Mary Ann (later Marion) Evans
1846-1860
(Trans) The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by D F Strauss (1846 Chapman) - 3 vols
(Trans) Ludwig Feurbach's Essence of Christianity (1854 Chapman)
Scenes of Clerical Life
(1858 Blackwood, Edinburgh) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £950
(1858 Harper) One vol
(1859 Blackwood. 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £250
Adam Bede
(1859 Blackwood, Edinburgh) - 3 vols. One vol 1904 (1859 Harper NY)
The Mill on the Floss
(1860 Blackwood, Edinburgh) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £1200
(1860 Harper) - One vol 1903
[Filmed in 1937]

1861-1870
Silas Marner : The Weaver of Raveloe
(1861 William Blackwood, Edinburgh)
Offered in 1998 for £1400 & 1999 for £1800
(1861 Harper)
[A version filmed in 1994 as "A Simple Twist of Fate"]
Romola
(1863 Smith Elder) - 3 vols.
[Eliot was offered £10,000 by Smith Elder for serial and book rights, but accepted only £700 for
its appearance in the Cornhill Magazine]

Offered in 1999 for £400
One vol 1913
(1863 Harper NY)
Felix Holt, the Radical
(1866 Blackwood, Edinburgh) - 3 vols. One vol 1909 (1866 Harper NY)
The Spanish Gypsy : A Poem
(1868 Blackwood) (1868 Ticknor & Fields)
How Lisa Loved the King
(1869 Fields, Osgood, Boston)
Agatha
(1869 Trubner) - [A Wise forgery]

1871-1880
Middlemarch : a Study of Provincial Life
(1871-2 Blackwood, Edinburgh) - 4 vols
Wise Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse
(1872 Blackwood)
The Legend of Jubal & Other Poems
(1874 Blackwood, Edinburgh) (1874 Osgood, Boston)
Daniel Deronda
(1876 Blackwood, Edinburgh) - 4 vols (1876 Harper NY) - 2 vols
The Sad Fortunes of the Rev Amos Barton
(1877 Harper, NY)
The Lifted Veil & Brother Jacob
(1878 Tauchnitz)
The Works
(1878-80 Blackwood : Cabinet Edition £5) - 20 vols
Impressions of Theophrastus Such
(1879 Blackwood, London) (1879 Harper NY)

1881-1900
Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book
(1884 Blackwood)
George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters & Journals
(1885 Blackwood)
(1885 Harper, NY) - 3 vols.
Edited by J W Cross
Collected Works : Handy Volume Edition
(c1890 Estes & Lauriat, Boston) - 12 vols
The Works : Standard Edition
(1895 Blackwood) - 21 vols
Offered in 1999 for £250
Scenes of Clerical Life
(1899 Blackwood) - H R Millar

1901-1920
Works - Warwick Edition
(1901-3 Edinburgh) - 12 vols
The Novels
(1901 Blackwood) - 8 vols in 7
Scenes of Clerical Life
(1906 Macmillan) - Hugh Thomson
Works
(c1906 Dana Estes, Boston) - 24 vols. illustrated
Silas Marner
(1907) - Hugh Thomson
The Writings
(1908 Houghton Mifflin) - 25 vols
Early Essays
(1919 PP at Westminster Press, London) - 220

1921 onwards
Adam Bede
(1926 Harrap) - Percy Tarrant
The Letters : Edited by R Brimley Johnson
(1926 JL, Bodley Head)
Letters
(ed Gordon S Haight) (1954-6 New Haven) - 7 vols
Essays
(ed Thomas Pinney) (1963)
Silas Marner
(1953 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - Lynton Lamb. 1500 signed
The Mill on the Floss
(1953 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Wray Manning
The Collected Poems of George Eliot
(1990 Skoob Books £18.95)

READING
1885-1900
George Willis Cooke : George Eliot - A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
(1883 Sampson Low)
John W Cross : Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters & Journals
(1885 Blackwood) (1885 Harper, NY) - 3 vols. By her widower
Henry James : In His Partial Portraits
(1888) - a review of Cross
Leslie Stephen : In His Hours in a Library
(1892)

1901-1950
Leslie Stephen : George Eliot
(1902)
William Mottram : The True Story of George Eliot in relation to Adam Bede
(1905 Fisher Unwin)
(Ed) Roland Stuart : Letters to Elma Stuart 1872-1880 (1909 Simpkin Marshall)
Isadore G Mudge & M E Sears : A George Eliot Dictionary
(1924)
Arthur Paterson : George Eliot's Family Life & Letters
(1928 Selwyn & Blount)
Percy H Muir : A Bibliography of the First Editions of Books by George Eliot,
1819-1880
(1928 Bookmans Journal)
M L Parrish : Victorian Lady Novelists
(1933 Dormy House, New Jersey)
Gordon S Haight : George Eliot & John Chapman
(1940 New Haven)
Joan Bennett : George Eliot, Her Mind and Her Art
(1948 Cambridge)
F R Leavis : In His The Great Tradition
(1948)

1951-1980
Lawrence & Elizabeth Hanson : Marian Evans & George Eliot
(1952 Oxford)
(Ed) Gordon S Haight : Collected Letters (1954-78 OUP) - 9 vols
Barbara Hardy : The Novels of George Eliot
(1959 Athlone Press)
W J Harvey : The Art of George Eliot
(1961 C & W)
Gordon S Haight : George Eliot - A Biography
(1968 Clarendon Press 55/-)
(Ed) George R Creeger : George Eliot - A Collection of Critical Essays (1970 Prentice-Hall)
(Ed) Barbara Hardy : Critical Essays on George Eliot (1970 RKP)
R T Jones : George Eliot
(1971 Cambridge UP £1.80)
(Ed) David Carroll : George Eliot - The Critical heritage (1977)

Since 1981
Barbara Hardy : Particularities - Readings on George Eliot
(1982)
David Williams : Mr george Eliot - A Biography of George Henry Lewis
(1983 Hodder & Stoughton)
Sally Shuttleworth : George Eliot and 19thC Science
(1984)
Gillian Beer : George Eliot
(1986)
George Levine & Patricia O'Hara : An Annotated Bibliography of George Eliot
(1988)
Ina Taylor : George Eliot - Woman of Contradictions
(1989)
David Carroll : George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations
(1992)
Frederick Karl : George Eliot - A Biography
(1995 Harper Collins)
Rosemary Ashton : George Eliot - A Life
(1996 Hamish Hamilton £25)
Gerlinde Roder-Bolton : George Eliot & Goethe - An Elective Affinity
(1998 Rodopi, Amsterdam £28)
Kathryn Hughes : George Eliot - The Last Victorian
(1998 Fourth Estate £20)

Related Writers

Dictionary
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See also

Charles Edmund Brock
Charlotte Bronte
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
Folio Society
Lynton Harold Lamb
Harold R Millar
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics