Details

Title

George Eliot's Life

Subtitle

as related in her Letters and Journals

Author

Eliot, George
Cross, J.W.

Place of Publication

New York

Publisher

Harper & Brothers

Date of Publication

1885 Show more1885-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Collection

Scans used with permission from Cornell University Library.

Note

Montgomery first notes that she read (what was most likely) this famous biography of Eliot in September of 1895. Montgomery admired Eliot, calling the author's "Adam Bede" (1859) "another cup of mingled pain and pleasure, bitter and sweet. It is a powerful book, with an inartistic ending. Her delineation of character is a thing before which a poor scribbler might well throw down her pen in despair" ("The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery, The PEI Years, 1901-1911," p. 68). Years later, she said "George Eliot had a way of saying things uncomfortably true" ("L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals, The Ontario Years, 1918-1921," p. 238). George Eliot was the pen name of English writer Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). Eliot's novels, including "The Mill on the Floss" (1860), "Silas Marner" (1861), and "Middlemarch" (1871/2), greatly influenced Victorian literature. While she also worked as an editor and a poet, her novels helped establish her as a serious writer of fiction. This volume was edited by her second husband and the selected pages here show just a snippet of Eliot's rich life.

Genre

book