Archives: Mary Anne Evans

Fighting poets, the public domain, the genius behind what you read as a kid, and the American cult of ignorance: newsletter, January 4, 2019

January 7, 2019 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: books, journalism, newsletter.

This newsletter was sent to all of the subscribers on Jim’s list (2,940) on Friday, January 4, 2019. For me, the new year has seen the completion of at least one project, the continuation of several others, and the beginning of a new one. Here I’ll just talk about what’s been completed. Several years • Read More »

Tags: 1913 Washington Suffrage Parade, Baseball Joe, Ben Bolt, copyright, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Stratemeyer, George Eliot, Hardy Boys, Mary Anne Evans, Nancy Drew, Nelson Kneass, public domain, Seeing Suffrage, The Great Gadsby, Thomas Dunn English

Becoming George Eliot (part 2): the progress of Mary Anne Evans

January 5, 2019 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: books, journalism, Women writers and journalists, writers, writing.

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

Becoming George Eliot (part 1): The progress of Mary Anne Evans

January 5, 2019 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: books, fiction, Women writers and journalists, writers, writing.

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

More literary deceptions, Artemus Ward, and JFK on open government: newsletter, Dec. 28, 2018

December 31, 2018 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: books, fiction, newsletter, writers, writing.

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