George Eliot

George Eliot

1819 – 1880

George Eliot is one of the most celebrated female novelists of the nineteenth century. She wrote seven novels that include The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876). Middlemarch is considered to be one of the best novels ever written in the English language. 

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Item #352206 Autograph Letter, signed "ME Lewes" to [Joseph Munt] Langford. George Eliot

'Let us keep to make good romances of the practical kind if we can.' – George Eliot as matchmaker

Item 352206Autograph Letter, signed "ME Lewes" to [Joseph Munt] Langford.

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The Priory, Regents Park: December 22, 1877. Joseph Munt Langford (1809-1884) was a publisher, playwright and drama critic who managed the London offices for Blackwood & Sons. Lewes, upon receipt of a letter from John Blackwood expressing romantic interest in Emma Gwyther (daughter of Reverend John Gwyther, model for Amos.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed "ME Lewes" to [Joseph Munt] Langford Add to Wish List

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Item #346202 Scenes of Clerical Life. George Eliot

ELIOT’S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH

Item 346202Scenes of Clerical Life.

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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. First edition in book form. First edition in book form of George Eliot's first published work of fiction, collecting three short stories previously serialized in Blackwood's Magazine from January to November 1857. Sadleir, writing in 1951, remarks that the book "in any.....  Read More Item Details for Scenes of Clerical Life Add to Wish List

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Item #324319 Two Autograph Letters, signed ("Marian E. Lewes") to Frederic, 1st Baron...

'Approximative truth is the only truth attainable'

Item 324319Two Autograph Letters, signed ("Marian E. Lewes") to Frederic, 1st Baron Leighton, 1862 [WITH] Romola.

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Sussex: Sept. 10. 62; June [10], 1862. Includes first "De Luxe Edition", number 971 of 1000 numbered copies: the first book edition with complete Leighton illustrations. Two detailed letters from Eliot to her illustrator, Frederic Leighton, demonstrating her extensive research into Italian history for her novel Romola, her anxiety over.....  Read More Item Details for Two Autograph Letters, signed ("Marian E. Lewes") to Frederic, 1st Baron Leighton, 1862 [WITH] Romola Add to Wish List

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Item #320913 The Writings of... Together with the Life of J. W. Cross. George Eliot

Item 320913The Writings of... Together with the Life of J. W. Cross.

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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1908. Large Paper Edition. Number 155 of 750 copies. This set includes all of the novels as well as Scenes from Clerical Life; The Lifted Veil; Brother Jacob; Impressions of Theophrastus Such; The Spanish Gypsy; Poems; Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book; Essays.....  Read More Item Details for The Writings of... Together with the Life of J. W. Cross Add to Wish List

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Item #315508 Collection of first editions of her major works, uniformly bound. George Eliot

Item 315508Collection of first editions of her major works, uniformly bound.

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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858-1885. An attractively bound set of Eliot's works, all in first edition, containing all of her major novels: Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858 (2 vols.); Adam Bede, 1859 (3 vols.); Silas Marner, 1861; Mill on the Floss, 1860 (3 vols.); Romola, 1863 (3.....  Read More Item Details for Collection of first editions of her major works, uniformly bound Add to Wish List

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