Contemporaries on George Eliot's Works
An understanding of how George Eliot’s contemporaries were reading and responding to her published works helps us appreciate her reach, her fame, and her historical significance.
In this section, you will find commentary on Eliot's works published in periodicals during and shortly beyond her lifetime.
The George Eliot Archive offers far more reviews and commentary on Eliot's works than any print volume. As a digital scholarly edition, we are able to continuously expand as new items are identified. We have relied on the work of editors of printed collections as our starting point and continued to build our collection well beyond what has been available. Our digital edition more than quadruples the number of previously collected reviews of Middlemarch, facilitating new avenues of inquiry into the novel's early reception.
We also have an extensive collection of articles reporting on and summarizing lectures presented on George Eliot’s works and on her literary influence within and outside of England. As these documents demonstrate, Eliot's writing garnered widespread acclaim from professional critics and common citizens alike, who generally praised the creativity, wit, complex characters, and the moral philosophy incorporated into her writings.
If you are unable to locate a specific review or article about Eliot's works in this section, please let us know. We'll find it, upload it, and send you the link.
George Eliot
Gems From George Eliot
Gems From George Eliot
Gems From George Eliot
Gems From George Eliot
Film Version of George Eliot Book
Fiction: Past and Present
Feminine Fancies, Foibles, and Fashions.
Felix Holt, the Radical [A Review]
Felix Holt, the Radical [A Review]
Felix Holt, the Radical [A Review]
Felix Holt, the Radical [A Review]
Estimate of "George Eliot"
Estimate of "George Eliot"
Essays on Some of the Modern Guides to English Thought in Matters of Faith
Essays on Some of the Modern Guides of English Thought in Matters of Faith [A Review]
Essays and Leaves from a Note-book
English Poetesses: A Series of Critical Biographies
English Men and Women of Letters of the 19th Century
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps on George Eliot
Eliot's Novels
Dr. Adler on "Daniel Deronda"
Dr. Adler on 'Daniel Deronda
Dorothea Casaubon and George Eliot
Dorothea Casaubon and George Eliot
Dodsons and Tullivers
Dickens and the Queen
Diamond Jubilee of "Romola"
Deronda the Jew
Daniel Deronda: A Conversation
Daniel Deronda and the "Philosopher's Club"
Daniel Deronda [A Review]
Daniel Deronda [A Review]
Critical Notices
Critical Assessments [Review of Middlemarch]
Corporation Trading: Anti-Municipal Crusade
Contributor's Column: The Novels of George Eliot
Concerning Four Great Writers
Children in the Novels of George Eliot
Charles Dickens and George Eliot
Charles Dickens and George Eliot
Charles Dickens and "George Eliot"
Cambridge University Local Lectures
Books: George Eliot Through Her Letters
Books Received
Books Received
Books Received
Books Received
Books Received
Belles Lettres: Three Novels
Authors and Their Heroes and Heroines
Art. VI. --- Theophrastus Such
Art and Literary Gossip
Art and Literary
April Magazines: George Eliot's Women
An Author's Blunders- Slips in the Chronology of "Adam Bede"
American Estimation of Popular Writers
Adam Bede: George Eliot Originals
Adam Bede [A Review]
About Some of the George Eliot's Novels
About Literature and the Arts
A Word About the Quinns-- And Books
A Traveller's Experiences in the George Eliot Country
A Survey of English Literature
A Reviving Fame
A Professional Woman
A Prayer by George Eliot
A Nugget of Wisdom: George Eliot's Opinions of Swiss Watches
A Nugget of Wisdom: George Eliot's Opinions of Swiss Watches
A Literary Study: George Eliot
A Literary "Coincidence"-- Where George Eliot got the Drowning Scene for her "Daniel Deronda"
A Link with "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story"
A Letter from George Eliot
A History of English Prose Fiction from Sir Thomas Malory to George Eliot
A Batch of Last Year's Novels
To Novelists - and a Novelist
The Personal Edition of George Eliot's Works: Poems, Essays, and Leaves from a Note Book, Edited by Esther Wood
The Great English Writers from Chaucer to George Eliot: With Selections Illustrating Their Work
Middlemarch: The Eighth and Last Book.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life [A Review]
George Eliot, Scenes and People in Her Novels
Felix Holt, the Radical [A Review]
Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Jane Austen: Studies in Their Works
Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston). Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Jane Austen: Studies In Their Works. New York [etc.]: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902.