After reading this book, George Eliot said she wished that more men of genius would write biographies.

GEORGE ELIOT, 1819-1880 [Illustration: GEORGE ELIOT.

Mary Ann Evans, known to her family as Marian and to her readers as George Eliot, was born in 1819, at South Farm, in Arbury, Warwickshire, about twenty-two miles north of Stratford-on-Avon.

George Eliot's early literary labors were mainly critical and scientific, being governed by the circle in which she moved.

Her novels, published under the pen name of George Eliot, quickly became popular.

George Eliot was fast approaching forty when she found the branch of literature in which she was to achieve fame.

Middlemarch (1871-1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876) marked the decline of George Eliot's powers.

The analytical tendency is pronounced in George Eliot's works, which exhibit an exhaustive study of the feelings, the thoughts, the dreams, and purposes of the characters.

" George Eliot occasionally brightens the seriousness of her works with humor.

" Great precision and scholarlike correctness mark the style of George Eliot.

His people are clear-cut and alive, but we do not see them grow and develop as do George Eliot's characters.

Cross's George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals.

Browning's Life of George Eliot.

(G.W.) Stephens's George Eliot.

(E.M.L.) Cook's George Eliot:

Olcott's George Eliot: Scenes and People in Her Novels.

How should you characterize Thackeray's style? George Eliot.

George Eliot.

E ELIOT, GEORGE (Mary Ann Evans Lewes Cross).

The Mill on the Floss In "The Mill on the Floss," published in 1860, George Eliot went to her own early life for the chief characters in the story, and in the relations of

To this criticism George Eliot answered, "Now that the defect is suggested to me, if the book were still in manuscript I should alter, or rather expand, that scene at Red Deeps."

by Samuel A. Eliot, jr. Contents.

R67277, 18Sep50, Samuel A. Eliot, jr.

With a translation into English by T. S. Eliot.

Esme Valerie Eliot (W); 22Nov65; R373814.