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George Eliot

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griff
a 'cheerful red-brick, ivory-covered house' where Eliot spent 21 years of her life among people that she later depicted in her novels
westminster abbey
eliot requested to be buried in
male profession
george eliot became mary ann evan's pseudonym because writing was considered a __ ___
charles hennel
charles bray's wife, cara, was the sister of ...
the mill on the floss
eliot's story about destructive family relations
december 22 1880
date of eliot's death
middlemarch
eliot's greatest work
honeymoon, kidney
After Eliot & Cross's __ they returned to London, where she died of a __ ailment on the same year
D.H. Lawrence
_._. _____ once wrote: "It was really George Eliot who started it all. It was she started putting action inside."
dorothea brooke
"middlemarch" follows the sexual and intellectual frustrations of ___ ___
rejected
later, eliot ____ her faith
mary ann evans
george eliot's birthname
mentally unbalanced
lewes and eliot's union was unconventional because lewes was married to a ____ ____ woman
past, present
One of Eliot's main concerns is the way which the __ molds the __
An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity
charles hennel's work that influenced eliot's thoughts
warwickshire
george eliot's birthplace
scenes of clerical life
eliots first collection of tales was called...
charles bray
a free-thinking Coventry manufacturer who introduced eliot to many new religious and political ideas
impostors
"adam bede" was claimed the work of ___, so george eliot had to reveal herself
1841
year eliot moved to coventry
evangelical piety
Eliot developed a strong ____ __ at Mrs. Wallington's School at Neneaton
germany
eliot and lewes went to ___ in 1854
adam bede
eliot's first novel
Westminster Review
the newspaper that eliot was subeditor of; she made it a success
john cross
After Lewes's death, Eliot married a friend who was twenty years her junior, __ __
highgate cemetery
eliot is actually buried in
silas marner
eliot's story on the redeeming qualities of love
George Henry Lewes
eliot's companion until his death in 1878
henry james
Eliot's novels were called by the famous American writer __ __ a 'treasure-house of detail.'
1836
year eliot's mother died & eliot took care of the household

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