Historical documents. What clues can you gather about George Eliot, the time, place, players, and culture?
Middlemarch
E-text of the novel.
Silas Marner
E-text of the 1861 novel.
Adam Bede
E-text of Eliot's first novel.
The Mill on the Floss
E-text of the novel.
"O May I Join the Choir Invisible"
Poetry by Eliot.
"The Ethics of George Eliot's Works"
A critical essay on Eliot published in 1874.
"Silly Novels by Lady Novelists"
Eliot's manifesto on fiction written by women.
The Life of George Eliot by John Morley
E-text of a 1904 biography of the writer.
Athenaeum Review
An 1860 review of The Mill on the Floss by a popular literary magazine.
Letter
An 1840 letter George Eliot wrote to her uncle Samuel Evans.