When Mary Anne Evans published her first work under the pen name of George Eliot in 1856, there is no evidence that she ever planned to reveal her identity. She was successfully hiding behind the general rumor that George Eliot must be some country parson because the next of her writings, Scenes from a Clerical Life, • Read More »
Tags: Adam Bede, George Eliot, Mary Anne Evans, Middlemarch, Vriginia Woolf
Mary Anne Evans was one of the sharpest and most wide-ranging minds of the 1800s in London’s ground-breaking intellectual ferment of the mid-century. She mixed with the most radical and forwarding thinkers of the day and was the driving force behind the resurgence of the Westminster Review between late 1851 and 1853. Her title was assistant • Read More »
Tags: Adam Bede, Blackwood's Magazine, George Eliot, George Lewes, Marian Evans, Mary Anne Evans, Westminster Review
This newsletter was sent to all of the subscribers on Jim’s list (2,951) on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. This is the last newsletter of the year and time, once again, to thank all of you newsletter readers for reading and responding. You have given me so many good tips about articles and books. • Read More »
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Adam Bede, Anonymous, Artemus Ward, Author Unknown, Dan Fesperman, Don Foster, George Eliot, JFK, Joe Klein, John F. Kennedy, Mary Anne Evans, open government, Sinclair Lewis