Project Gutenberg 2011-07-25 Public domain in the USA. 297 Blind, Mathilde 1841 1896 George Eliot Produced by Delphine Lettau, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "George Eliot" by Mathilde Blind is a biographical account written in the late 19th century. This work delves into the life and contributions of Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, tracing her journey through literary circles, influences, personal struggles, and the challenges she faced as a female author in a male-dominated society. It sets the stage for understanding how her personal experiences shaped her notable works, which include varied characters and themes reflective of English rural life and complex human emotions. The opening of the biography introduces the reader to its aim of bringing George Eliot's life into focus, particularly highlighting the scarcity of detailed accounts about her. The author reveals her research process, involving personal interactions with Eliot’s family and contemporaries, which enriches the narrative with unique insights and anecdotes. Mathilde Blind emphasizes Eliot's views on the intellectual and artistic contributions of women, contrasting this with the limitations placed on English women of her time. The text foreshadows a deeper exploration of Eliot's childhood, her formative experiences, and the friendships that significantly influenced her development as a writer, thus piquing the reader's interest in Eliot's evolution from a girl in Warwickshire to a leading figure in Victorian literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 51.8 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography Eliot, George, 1819-1880 PR Text Category: Biographies 409066 2025-08-15T05:32:19.771927 text/html 410937 2011-07-25T12:56:32 text/html 226303 2025-08-15T05:32:26.433878 application/epub+zip 229495 2025-08-15T05:32:21.658892 application/epub+zip 229495 2025-08-15T05:32:20.477909 application/epub+zip 379184 2025-08-15T05:32:30.154869 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 354259 2025-08-15T05:32:25.540886 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 322202 2022-09-17T03:45:00.889223 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 381986 2025-08-15T05:32:19.285898 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 381862 2011-07-25T12:56:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 381863 2011-07-25T12:56:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20157 2025-08-15T05:32:30.295846 application/rdf+xml 9764 2025-08-15T05:32:20.969899 image/jpeg 2678 2025-08-15T05:32:20.723894 image/jpeg 151099 2011-07-25T12:56:36 application/octet-stream application/zip 157247 2011-07-25T12:56:36 application/octet-stream application/zip 151011 2011-07-25T12:56:34 application/octet-stream application/zip 213078 2025-08-15T05:32:19.805923 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia