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Definition
British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society and psychology (1819-1880)
- Currer Bell, George Eliot, George Sand, all the victims of inner strife as their writings prove, sought ineffectively to veil themselves by using the name of a man.3 (57% in)
- They might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontës and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow; some witticisms if possible about Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George Eliot; a reference to Mrs Gaskell and one would have done.1 (1% in)
- Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontës and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue.4 (34% in)
- Jane Austen should have laid a wreath upon the grave of Fanny Burney, and George Eliot done homage to the robust shade of Eliza Carter—the valiant old woman who tied a bell to her bedstead in order that she might wake early and learn Greek.4 (36% in)
- Moreover, I thought, looking at the four famous names, what had George Eliot in common with Emily Brontë?4 (38% in)
- Emily Brontë should have written poetic plays; the overflow of George Eliot's capacious mind should have spread itself when the creative impulse was spent upon history or biography.4 (44% in)
- One of them, it is true, George Eliot, escaped after much tribulation, but only to a secluded villa in St John's Wood.4 (59% in)
- George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description.4 (92% in)
- She had nothing like the love of Nature, the fiery imagination, the wild poetry, the brilliant wit, the brooding wisdom of her great predecessors, Lady Winchilsea, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen and George Eliot; she could not write with the melody and the dignity of Dorothy Osborne—indeed she was no more than a clever girl whose books will no doubt be pulped by the publishers in ten years' time.5 (85% in)
There are no more uses of "George Eliot" in A Room of One's Own.
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