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George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans on a Warwickshire farm in England, where she spent almost all of her early life. She received a modest local education and was particularly influenced by one of her teachers, an extremely religious woman whom the novelist would later use as a model for various mehr anzeigen characters. Eliot read extensively, and was particularly drawn to the romantic poets and German literature. In 1849, after the death of her father, she went to London and became assistant editor of the Westminster Review, a radical magazine. She soon began publishing sketches of country life in London magazines. At about his time Eliot began her lifelong relationship with George Henry Lewes. A married man, Lewes could not marry Eliot, but they lived together until Lewes's death. Eliot's sketches were well received, and soon after she followed with her first novel, Adam Bede (1859). She took the pen name "George Eliot" because she believed the public would take a male author more seriously. Like all of Eliot's best work, The Mill on the Floss (1860), is based in large part on her own life and her relationship with her brother. In it she begins to explore male-female relations and the way people's personalities determine their relationships with others. She returns to this theme in Silas Mariner (1861), in which she examines the changes brought about in life and personality of a miser through the love of a little girl. In 1863, Eliot published Romola. Set against the political intrigue of Florence, Italy, of the 1490's, the book chronicles the spiritual journey of a passionate young woman. Eliot's greatest achievement is almost certainly Middlemarch (1871). Here she paints her most detailed picture of English country life, and explores most deeply the frustrations of an intelligent woman with no outlet for her aspirations. This novel is now regarded as one of the major works of the Victorian era and one of the greatest works of fiction in English. Eliot's last work was Daniel Deronda. In that work, Daniel, the adopted son of an aristocratic Englishman, gradually becomes interested in Jewish culture and then discovers his own Jewish heritage. He eventually goes to live in Palestine. Because of the way in which she explored character and extended the range of subject matter to include simple country life, Eliot is now considered to be a major figure in the development of the novel. She is buried in Highgate Cemetery, North London, England, next to her common-law husband, George Henry Lewes. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Wissenswertes

Rechtmäßiger Name
Evans, Mary Ann
Andere Namen
Evans, Marian
Cross, Mary Anne
Geburtstag
1819-11-22
Todestag
1880-12-22
Begräbnisort
Highgate Cemetery, London, England, UK
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
UK
Land (für Karte)
England, UK
Geburtsort
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Sterbeort
London, England, UK
Todesursache
throat infection
Wohnorte
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Ausbildung
Mrs. Wallington's School (Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK)
Berufe
Schriftstellerin
Übersetzerin
Journalistin
Beziehungen
Lewes, George Henry (Ehemann)
Cross, J. W. (Ehemann)
Hennell, Sara (Freund)
Spencer, Herbert (Freund)
Kurzbiographie
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian, 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, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances. She also wanted to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. Another factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny, thus avoiding the scandal that would have arisen because of her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes.

Middlemarch has been described by the novelists Martin Amis[3] and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language. Published under the name J. T. Colgan.

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Rezensionen

Vom besten Freund des Diebstahls bezichtigt und seiner Braut beraubt, zieht sich der Weber Silas Marner in das kleine Dorf Raveloe zurück. Sein einziger Lebensinhalt, Arbeiten und Sparen, wird mit einem Schlag zunichte gemacht, als man ihm seine ganzen Ersparnisse entwendet. Doch dann führt ihm das Schicksal ein Findelkind zu, das seinem Leben einen neuen Sinn gibt bis eines Tages der leibliche Vater auftaucht. Dieser mehrfach verfilmte Roman wird hier in einer neuen Übersetzung vorgelegt.
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Im englischen Örtchen Middlemarch verflechten sich vor dem Hintergrund der beginnenden Industrialisierung die Schicksale mehrerer Personen: Die junge und idealistische Dorothea Brooke erhofft sich von der Ehe mit dem Gelehrten Casaubon geistigen Austausch. Dr. Lydgate soll das neue Hospital leiten und freit um die schöne Rosamond. Deren Bruder Fred wiederum wirbt lange vergeblich um die Bauerstochter Mary...
George Eliots virtuos komponierter Roman "Middlemarch" ist ein Meisterwerk realistischer Literatur: Mit ungeheurer erzählerischer Finesse entwirft er ein ebenso getreues wie dichtes Gesellschafts- und Sittenporträt der englischen Provinz im Viktorianischen England.

Dabei gelingt es Eliot auf spielerisch leichte und geradezu verblüffende Weise, ihren zahlreichen Haupt- und Nebenfiguren Leben einzuhauchen und den zeittypischen Kampf um Selbstbestimmung und soziale Teilhabe hautnah erfahrbar zu machen. Die stoffliche und stilistische Vielfalt von Eliots 1871/72 erschienenem Monumentalroman faszinieren bis heute.

Über den Autor
George Eliot, eig. Mary Ann Evans, wurde 1819 in Arbury Farm/Warwickshire geboren und starb 1880 in London. Die Autorin ist eine der bedeutendsten Vertreterinnen des psychologisch-sozialen Romans.

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