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DEATH OF ''GEORGE ELlOT.'i
We regret t.o announce tile death of Mn J. W •
Cros,, known to the world as "Gemae Blio&." The
deceased lady bu been ailintt since Bunday last, oo
which day ahe wu aeized with a 1111dden chill, b11• it
waa not till yeaterds7 that any alarm for her safe~
was experienced by her friend& Y eaterday, how
ever, her airength failed her, and afi ten o'clock at
night ahe expired. "George h1io'," who wu beyond
dispute lhe moat powerful and original writer of
fiction of her day, ••• born in 1820, and at an early
age devoted her thoughts te literature. Ber tint
work. '' Scenes of Clerical Life," attracted great
attention. but it was not until the publication of ' 1 Adam Bede " that ahe took rank
amonc the first of contemporary noveli,ta. Since
that time her pen baa been never idle, as ibe
production of such works u "The Ifill on the Floes,"
'' Felix Holt, the Radical," '' Situ Mamsr," ·• Ro.
mola," '' lliddlemarch,'' and "Daniel Deronda,.,
will testifyI and that her labour wu no, wuh·
out profit to berse~ ma:, be judged by the
fact that for " Romolo " alone she receivad a
B11m of f:l,000. Some o! her characters have become
historical, 1uch as ''Mrs Poyser," the ■barppnd
active farmer's wife. whose aayinp are frequently
quoted. Her first huband was Mr G. H. Lewe9, ihe
philosopher, with whom she liTed a brief bat; happ7
married life. Ber s~cond marriage has also been
one of short duration, Mr Cross being a man unknown to fame olherwiae than as the huaband of
'' George Eliot."
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Contemporaries on George Eliot's Life
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An understanding of how George Eliot’s contemporaries were reading and responding to her life and works helps us appreciate her reach, her fame, and her historical significance. <br /><br /><b>Biographical Studies:</b> In this section, you will find assessments of Eliot’s life by her contemporaries—everything from brief commentary in periodicals, to chapters in collective biographies, to complete, book-length biographies.<br /><br />Most significant is <a href="http://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/222" title="Life of George Eliot">the 1885 biography written by her husband</a>, John Walter Cross, which includes many of Eliot's letters and journal entries. Reviews of Cross’s biography are collected here for the first time. In our <a href="http://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/browse?collection=16&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle" title="Cross Letters">Correspondence</a> section, every one of the 894 letters Cross collected is sortable and searchable.<br /><br />When she died after a brief illness at the age of sixty-one, George Eliot was one of England's most famous literary celebrities. Obituary notices are well represented in this collection, including several later tributes written by famous authors whose own work was influenced by Eliot’s, including Henry James and Virginia Woolf. <br /><br /><span>It is interesting to note how often early biographical sketches included incorrect information. We retain these, of course, for the benefit of comparison and the historical interest of these records.<br /></span>
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Announces the death of George Eliot and examines her literary accomplishments.
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"Death of 'George Eliot.'" Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 24 Dec. 1880, p. 4.
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<em>George Eliot Archive</em>, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. <br />https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org
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1880-12-24
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Death of George Eliot
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Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette