When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...

Commemorating the 50-year Jubilee of one of its most distinguished former editors, the Advocate is publishing a "T.S. Eliot" number for its December issue. The magazine will go on sale today and ...

This week in the magazine, Rebecca writes about George Eliot and "Middlemarch." Join her online today at 3 P.M. E.T. for a live chat. Click here to set an e-mail reminder and to join the chat. When I ...

In her new novel, "The Honeymoon," Dinitia Smith has taken on the most enigmatic portion of the life of Marian Evans, the woman behind the pseudonym George Eliot. After a long and happy relationship ...

“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.” George Eliot wrote those sentences in her 1872 masterpiece, Middlemarch, an examination of marriage ...

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Bullett, Gerald. George Eliot: Her Life and Books. London: Collins, 1947. Cross, John Walter. George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals. 3 vols ...

In Love with George Eliot. By Kathy O’Shaughnessy.Scribe; 400 pages; £16.99. THIS MONTH marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Eliot—author of one of the greatest novels of the Victorian ...

Meg Wolitzer's latest novel is The Interestings. I have to admit that the first time I tried to read Middlemarch by George Eliot, I ended up putting it aside after only 20 pages. My teenage self, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper examines the great Victorian novelist George Eliot's (1819–80) picture of Cisleithanian Austria through an exploration of her ...