Author: George 1819-1880 Eliot
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781362613763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146558224X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
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With the materials in my hands I have endeavored to form an autobiography (if the term may be permitted) of George Eliot. The life has been allowed to write itself in extracts from her letters and journals. Free from the obtrusion of any mind but her own, this method serves, I think, better than any other open to me, to show the development of her intellect and character. In dealing with the correspondence I have been influenced by the desire to make known the woman, as well as the author, through the presentation of her daily life. On the intellectual side there remains little to be learned by those who already know George Eliot's books. In the twenty volumes which she wrote and published in her lifetime will be found her best and ripest thoughts. The letters now published throw light on another side of her nature—not less important, but hitherto unknown to the public—the side of the affections. The intimate life was the core of the root from which sprung the fairest flowers of her inspiration. Fame came to her late in life, and, when it presented itself, was so weighted with the sense of responsibility that it was in truth a rose with many thorns, for George Eliot had the temperament that shrinks from the position of a public character. The belief in the wide, and I may add in the beneficent, effect of her writing was no doubt the highest happiness, the reward of the artist which she greatly cherished: but the joys of the hearthside, the delight in the love of her friends, were the supreme pleasures in her life. By arranging all the letters and journals so as to form one connected whole, keeping the order of their dates, and with the least possible interruption of comment, I have endeavored to combine a narrative of day-to-day life, with the play of light and shade which only letters, written in various moods, can give, and without which no portrait can be a good likeness. I do not know that the particular method in which I have treated the letters has ever been adopted before. Each letter has been pruned of everything that seemed to me irrelevant to my purpose—of everything that I thought my wife would have wished to be omitted. Every sentence that remains adds, in my judgment, something (however small it may be) to the means of forming a conclusion about her character. I ought perhaps to say a word of apology for what may appear to be undue detail of travelling experiences; but I hope that to many readers these will be interesting, as reflected through George Eliot's mind. The remarks on works of art are only meant to be records of impressions. She would have deprecated for herself the attitude of an art critic.
Author: George Willis Cooke
Publisher:
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Author: George Eliot
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: George Eliot
Publisher:
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Author: George Eliot
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Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521794572
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The great Victorian novelist's complete surviving journals - first publication of new George Eliot text.
Author: Mary Ann Evans
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108020089
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Offers a digitally printed version of the 1885 autobiography of George Eliot, which is a collection of journals and letters that was compiled by the author's husband after her death.
Author: M. A. E. L. Cross ((George Eliot, pseud.))
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Languages : en
Pages : 418
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