George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880) known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
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Fierce, Feminine, and Still Fighting: A Panel with Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
Saturday 22nd | 2:30PM
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Join us in the Derby Theatre for a captivating discussion from three of literature's most influential writers. Our panel will discuss their engagement with female empowerment, as well as their thoughts on contemporary feminism and the #MeToo movement.
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George Eliot is the first person to refer to modern tennis and to ‘pop’ music. The Oxford English Dictionary credits Eliot with the earliest known references to both lawn tennis (in 1878) and ‘pop’ in relation to music (in 1862).
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'.
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You can purchase a copy of Middlemarch from Waterstones.
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ISBN: 9780141199795
RRP: £7.99