Ross Clark
2024-11-23 09:39:11 UTC
(or better) Mary Ann Evans born (lived until 1880).
"English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading
writers of the Victorian era." (Wiki)
She had already published a good deal (translations, reviews, articles
in magazines on contemporary topics) under her birth name, before her
first fiction (1857); this was when she assumed her nom de plume. "She
wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to
lighthearted romances or other lighter fare not to be taken very
seriously."
But _Adam Bede_ (1859) was so successful that she was outed, and her
scandalous private life (living successively with two otherwise-married
men) became known. Still, it did her no long-term harm -- apparently
Queen Victoria was an avid reader of her novels.
"Due to her denial of the Christian faith and her relationship with
Lewes,[50][citation needed] Eliot was not buried in Westminster Abbey.
She was instead interred in Highgate Cemetery (East), Highgate, London,
in the area reserved for political and religious dissenters and
agnostics, beside the love of her life, George Henry Lewes. The graves
of Karl Marx and her friend Herbert Spencer are nearby."
Hm. Quite recently I came across a battered old copy of _Silas Marner_.
It's on top of my enormous "To Read" pile. Maybe it's time for me to
read Word One of George Eliot.
"English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading
writers of the Victorian era." (Wiki)
She had already published a good deal (translations, reviews, articles
in magazines on contemporary topics) under her birth name, before her
first fiction (1857); this was when she assumed her nom de plume. "She
wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to
lighthearted romances or other lighter fare not to be taken very
seriously."
But _Adam Bede_ (1859) was so successful that she was outed, and her
scandalous private life (living successively with two otherwise-married
men) became known. Still, it did her no long-term harm -- apparently
Queen Victoria was an avid reader of her novels.
"Due to her denial of the Christian faith and her relationship with
Lewes,[50][citation needed] Eliot was not buried in Westminster Abbey.
She was instead interred in Highgate Cemetery (East), Highgate, London,
in the area reserved for political and religious dissenters and
agnostics, beside the love of her life, George Henry Lewes. The graves
of Karl Marx and her friend Herbert Spencer are nearby."
Hm. Quite recently I came across a battered old copy of _Silas Marner_.
It's on top of my enormous "To Read" pile. Maybe it's time for me to
read Word One of George Eliot.