https://georgeeliotarchive.org/files/original/45a6799bf635fddd7abe32e6c85a210b.pdf a55cb089964d78d9a5aab96a99593536 PDF Text Text 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." 1 �"Death of 'George Eliot.'" Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 24 Dec. 1880, p. 4. George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org. CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 Free sharing is encouraged. Attribution is required. Cite your source (database) as George Eliot Archive, Edited by Beverley Park Rilett. 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contemporaries on George Eliot's Life Subject The topic of the resource Commentary Description An account of the resource 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&amp;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.&nbsp;<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> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Contemporaries Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Death of "George Eliot" Description An account of the resource Announces the death of George Eliot and examines her literary accomplishments. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Death of 'George Eliot.'" Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 24 Dec. 1880, p. 4. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <em>George Eliot Archive</em>, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. <br />https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1880-12-24 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Type The nature or genre of the resource Periodical Article British Periodical Death of George Eliot GE Life Obituary Periodical Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette