George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

Short name George Eliot
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Alternative name Mary Ann Evans
Date of birth 1819
Date of death 1880
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Place of birth England
Place of death London
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Related to Edith Jemima Simcox , Anna Brownell Jameson
Bibliography - Elinor Shaffer and Catherine Brown (eds), The Reception of George Eliot in Europe, Bloomsbury, 2016. - Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, 'George Eliot in Norway: The Enthusiasm that Petered Out', in Shaffer and Brown, 2016. MENTIONED IN: - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 788, 796, 833-4. - van den Berg/Couttenier 2009, 498, 686 - De Vries, Een stad vol lezers 2011 - Vaessens, Geschiedenis van de moderne Nederlandse literatuur, 2013, p. 179, 189 Cf. - Ashton, R. George Eliot. New York, 1983 - Hands, Th., A George Eliot Chronology. London, 1989
Provisional Notes Was living together with the critic and author George Lewes (1854-1878). After his death she married one of his best friends: John W. Cross (1880) Chose not to have children with Lewes because of stigma of illegitimacy they would have to endure. (FScottMay12) KLK 1904 KLK 1915 MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.120ss: new initiatives
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Spouse Evans, Mary Ann | Lewes, Cross
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