Definition of George Eliot

1. Noun. British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880).

Exact synonyms: Eliot, Mary Ann Evans
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

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George Berkeley
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George Eliot (current term)
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Literary usage of George Eliot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"SCHERER, EDWARD, 1861-91, George Eliot, Essays on English Literature, tr. Saintsbury, p. 10. It is as a picture, or rather as a series of pictures, ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"The form not of Tito, or Maggie, or Dinah, or Silas, but of one who, if not the real George Eliot, is that "second self" who writes her books, and lives and ..."

3. The Development of the English Novel by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1899)
"What she did in part was fully accomplished by George Eliot. 2. George Eliot Like Shakespeare, with whom she has often been compared, George Eliot (Marian ..."

4. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"George Eliot was severely stricken by this bereavement, but in 1879 she ... George Eliot was a woman of unusual intellectual power, witty, sensible, ..."

5. The Makers of English Fiction by William James Dawson (1905)
"XII George Eliot George Eliot, or Mary Ann Evans, born at Griff, Warwickshire, ... WITH George Eliot, as with Dickens, there has been of late years a steady ..."

6. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"Leslie Stephen has put it on record that "neither critics nor general readers have been convinced that George Eliot was properly a poet, though she may be ..."

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