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George Eliot has 36 past events. (show)  UAB Booktalk Danny Siegel, Ph.D. will lead a discussion of Middlemarch by George Eliot. Join the Department of English for monthly Booktalk meetings 6-7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month in Humanities Building Room 237. The meetings are open to the Birmingham community; all are welcome. Books are selected by English faculty and instructors, who also lead the discussions.
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For more information, email Cassandra Ellis, cellis@uab.edu. (Muscogulus)… (more)Event location: Humanities Building 237, 900 13th St. S., Birmingham AL 35233 Writers Read Reading Group: Middlemarch Left Bank Books Join us for a reading group discussion of MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot! This panoramic work – considered the finest novel in English by many critics – offers a complex look at English provincial life at a crucial historical moment, and, at the same time, dramatizes and explores some of the most potent myths of Victorian literature.
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Location: Street: Left Bank Books Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)The CENTRAL SF CLASSIC LIT BOOK CLUB at Books Inc. in The Castro The CENTRAL SF CLASSIC LIT BOOK CLUB will discuss Books VI-VIII of MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot. Location: Books Inc. Street: 2275 Market St City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound) Chris Bohjalian Chris Bohjalian ( Before You Know Kindness, Idyll Banter, Midwives, Skeletons at the feast, The Buffalo Soldier, The double bind, The Law of Similars, Trans-Sister Radio, Secrets of Eden, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, Silas Marner, The Sandcastle Girls, The light in the ruins, The Night Strangers) Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed author of sixteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Sandcastle Girls, Skeletons at the feast, The double bind, and Midwives. His novel Midwives was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and three of his novels have become movies ( Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.chris bohjalian.com or on Facebook. (added from Random House)… (more) Chris Bohjalian Chris Bohjalian ( Before You Know Kindness, Idyll Banter, Midwives, Skeletons at the feast, The Buffalo Soldier, The double bind, The Law of Similars, Trans-Sister Radio, Secrets of Eden, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, Silas Marner, The Sandcastle Girls, The light in the ruins, The Night Strangers) Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed author of sixteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Sandcastle Girls, Skeletons at the feast, The double bind, and Midwives. His novel Midwives was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and three of his novels have become movies ( Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.chris bohjalian.com or on Facebook. (added from Random House)… (more) Chris Bohjalian Chris Bohjalian ( Before You Know Kindness, Idyll Banter, Midwives, Skeletons at the feast, The Buffalo Soldier, The double bind, The Law of Similars, Trans-Sister Radio, Secrets of Eden, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, Silas Marner, The Sandcastle Girls, The light in the ruins, The Night Strangers) Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed author of sixteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Sandcastle Girls, Skeletons at the feast, The double bind, and Midwives. His novel Midwives was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and three of his novels have become movies ( Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.chris bohjalian.com or on Facebook. (added from Random House)… (more) Chris Bohjalian Chris Bohjalian ( Before You Know Kindness, Idyll Banter, Midwives, Skeletons at the feast, The Buffalo Soldier, The double bind, The Law of Similars, Trans-Sister Radio, Secrets of Eden, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, Silas Marner, The Sandcastle Girls, The light in the ruins, The Night Strangers) Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed author of sixteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Sandcastle Girls, Skeletons at the feast, The double bind, and Midwives. His novel Midwives was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and three of his novels have become movies ( Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.chris bohjalian.com or on Facebook. (added from Random House)… (more) Chris Bohjalian Chris Bohjalian ( Before You Know Kindness, Idyll Banter, Midwives, Skeletons at the feast, The Buffalo Soldier, The double bind, The Law of Similars, Trans-Sister Radio, Secrets of Eden, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, Silas Marner, The Sandcastle Girls, The light in the ruins, The Night Strangers) Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed author of sixteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Sandcastle Girls, Skeletons at the feast, The double bind, and Midwives. His novel Midwives was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and three of his novels have become movies ( Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.chris bohjalian.com or on Facebook. (added from Random House)… (more) Chris Bohjalian Chris Bohjalian ( Before You Know Kindness, Idyll Banter, Midwives, Skeletons at the feast, The Buffalo Soldier, The double bind, The Law of Similars, Trans-Sister Radio, Secrets of Eden, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, Silas Marner, The Sandcastle Girls, The light in the ruins, The Night Strangers) Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed author of sixteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Sandcastle Girls, Skeletons at the feast, The double bind, and Midwives. His novel Midwives was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and three of his novels have become movies ( Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.chris bohjalian.com or on Facebook. (added from Random House)… (more) Chris Bohjalian Chris Bohjalian ( Before You Know Kindness, Idyll Banter, Midwives, Skeletons at the feast, The Buffalo Soldier, The double bind, The Law of Similars, Trans-Sister Radio, Secrets of Eden, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, Silas Marner, The Sandcastle Girls, The light in the ruins, The Night Strangers) Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed author of sixteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Sandcastle Girls, Skeletons at the feast, The double bind, and Midwives. His novel Midwives was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and three of his novels have become movies ( Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.chris bohjalian.com or on Facebook. (added from Random House)… (more)
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Cause of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances. She also wanted to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. Another factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny, thus avoiding the scandal that would have arisen because of her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes.
Middlemarch has been described by the novelists Martin Amis[3] and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language. Published under the name J. T. Colgan.  | |
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