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  • George Eliot born (22/11/1819)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 23 22:39:11 2024
    (or better) Mary Ann Evans born (lived until 1880).
    "English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading
    writers of the Victorian era." (Wiki)
    She had already published a good deal (translations, reviews, articles
    in magazines on contemporary topics) under her birth name, before her
    first fiction (1857); this was when she assumed her nom de plume. "She
    wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances or other lighter fare not to be taken very
    seriously."
    But _Adam Bede_ (1859) was so successful that she was outed, and her
    scandalous private life (living successively with two otherwise-married
    men) became known. Still, it did her no long-term harm -- apparently
    Queen Victoria was an avid reader of her novels.
    "Due to her denial of the Christian faith and her relationship with Lewes,[50][citation needed] Eliot was not buried in Westminster Abbey.
    She was instead interred in Highgate Cemetery (East), Highgate, London,
    in the area reserved for political and religious dissenters and
    agnostics, beside the love of her life, George Henry Lewes. The graves
    of Karl Marx and her friend Herbert Spencer are nearby."

    Hm. Quite recently I came across a battered old copy of _Silas Marner_.
    It's on top of my enormous "To Read" pile. Maybe it's time for me to
    read Word One of George Eliot.

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  • From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 24 09:18:06 2024
    Ar an tríú lá is fiche de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:

    [...] Hm. Quite recently I came across a battered old copy of _Silas Marner_. It's on top of my enormous "To Read" pile. Maybe it's time for me to read Word One of George Eliot.

    I didn’t particularly enjoy it, I wish you luck with it.

    --
    ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
    (C. Moore)

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