Eliot,George

Eliot,George
Eliot, George. Pen name of Mary Ann Evans. 1819-1880.
British writer whose novels, all in the 19th-century realist tradition, include Adam Bede (1859), Silas Marner (1861), and her masterpiece, Middlemarch (1871-1872).

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  • ELIOT, GEORGE° — ELIOT, GEORGE°, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), English novelist. A Christian, George Eliot was a friend of the talmudic scholar emanuel deutsch , and began to study Hebrew and to show an interest in Jewish matters at an early age.… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Eliot, George — orig. Mary Ann Evans later Marian Evans born Nov. 22, 1819, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, Eng. died Dec. 22, 1880, London British novelist. Eliot was raised with a strong evangelical piety but broke with religious orthodoxy in her 20s. She worked …   Universalium

  • Eliot, George — (1819 1880)    George Eliot, the pseudonym of Mary Ann or Marian Cross (formerly, Evans) said to be one of the greatest novelists in England s history was born in Warwickshire. Her father was overseer to Arbury Hall, the Newdigate family s seven… …   British and Irish poets

  • Eliot, George — ► (1819 80) Seudónimo de Mary Ann Evans, escritora británica. Su gran sensibilidad y vasta cultura se reflejan en su obra, de alto valor estético y humano. Autora de Mediados de marzo (1871 72). * * * orig. Mary Ann Evans post. Marian Evans (22… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • ELIOT, GEORGE —    the nom de plume of Mary Ann Evans, distinguished English novelist, born at Arbury, in Warwickshire; was bred on evangelical lines, but by and by lost faith in supernatural Christianity; began her literary career by a translation of Strauss s… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) — (1819–80)    English novelist. Born in War wickshire of a lower middle class family, Mary Evans, writing under the male pseudonym George Eliot, is regarded as a precursor of Zionism. She was already an established novelist, after Mill on the… …   Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament

  • Eliot, George —  Pen name of Mary Ann (later Marian) Evans (1819–1880), English author …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • Eliot, George — pseud. di Evans, Mary Ann …   Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione

  • Eliot, George —    see Evans, Mary Ann …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

  • George Fielding Eliot — (22 June 1894 – 21 April 1971) was a Second Lieutenant in the Australian army in World War I. He became a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and later a Major in the Military Intelligence Reserve of the United States Army. He was the… …   Wikipedia

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