Blogs about: George Eliot

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12th April 1832

came to London this morning got there abt. one o clock went to Lord Aylesfords House in Audley Square but his Lordship was just gone out I waited some time but could not see him. ………… more →

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Eliot's Lessons In Morality — 5 comments

hughcurtler wrote 1 day ago: In her first major novel, The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot created a situation between Maggie Tul … more →

Tags: Hugh's blogs, Love, duty, Pleasure, George Lewes, victorian values, mill on the floss

Travel writing back in the days ...

karenmcfly wrote 1 day ago: … or what the islanders thought of us … more →

Tags: Documentary, Art, Berlin, England, Literature, romanticism, Germany, Journey, München

Victorian Values — 4 comments

hughcurtler wrote 2 days ago: The two major forces that brought the Victorian age to an end were industrial capitalism and the dem … more →

Tags: Hugh's blogs, Adam Bede, Anthony Trollope, Downton Abbey, First World War, pbs, Thackery, The Three Clerks, TV

Sink or Swim: Social Stagnation in Eliot's Middlemarch — 1 comment

Kaelyn wrote 2 days ago: Funny how just when you think your brain might implode from sheer impotency, you finally think of so … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, 19th Century British Literature, doldrums, Dorothea, Middlemarch, Mr. Casaubon, stagnation

Barnaby Rudge: Week the Twenty-First

dickensinrealtime wrote 2 days ago: Does anyone know why Hugh hates Mr. Haredale so much?  Have I forgotten something?  I know he hates … more →

Tags: barnaby rudge, Romola, Literature, Charles Dickens, Reading, 19th Century, Books, book groups, Victorian

It is never too...

shesaidwhatomg wrote 2 days ago: It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot … more →

Tags: Quotes, Inspiration

Everyone's Writing Cancer Blogs — 2 comments

pinkyandperky wrote 3 days ago:   My daughter forwarded me a Guardian article about cancer blogs. It forefronted two writers: I … more →

Tags: cancer blogs, Daniel Deronda, Ecclesiasticus 44, Hillel, i am that i am, Iain Banks, John Diamond, Matilda Tristram

Why Manners Matter — 15 comments

hughcurtler wrote 4 days ago: As humans emerged from the “dark ages” they began to show greater interest in their behavior toward … more →

Tags: Hugh's blogs, Anthony Trollope, Edith Wharton, Erasmus, manners, Norbert Elias, Old New York, social forms, Victorian England

"Unravelling certain human lots"

K. wrote 4 days ago: A Great historian, as he [Henry Fielding] insisted on calling himself… glories in his copious … more →

Tags: Art, Middlemarch, Henry Fielding, historian, History, Web, universe, relevancies, focus?

A matter of distance

K. wrote 4 days ago: [A] telescope might have swept the parishes of Tipton and Freshitt… without witnessing any int … more →

Tags: Causes, Science, Art, Objectivity, Middlemarch, Mrs. Cadwallader, Telescope, Microscope, Point Of View

Go Go Garry Oak - (To weed, To leave, or To seed)

Gurdeep Stephens wrote 5 days ago: “It is never too late to be what we might have been” - George Eliot Trying to begin to u … more →

Tags: gardening, University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Nancy Turner, Sustainable Gardening, Garry Oak Ecosystems, camas, White Fawn Lilles, removing non-native plant species

Publication: Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Literature and Culture

Charlotte Mathieson wrote 5 days ago: The latest issue of Victorian Network, “Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Literature an … more →

Tags: publications, Research, Victorians, Adam Bede, Culture, Gender, Literature, Sexuality, Victorian

Love

jadedmess wrote 6 days ago: Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the be … more →

Tags: Love, soulmate, comfort

The noble art of reading in bed — 68 comments

valeriedavies wrote 6 days ago:       When I was young and naive, and a novice journalist, I wrote an article in a wo … more →

Tags: Books, cookery/recipes, Culture, Food, Great Days, humour, Jane Austen, Lifestyle, Literature

What Do We Live For — 1 comment

meandtheboss2013 wrote 1 week ago: “Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to … more →

Tags: kindness is, Chances, Choices, expectations, God, Great Creator, Heart, Higher Power, kindness

FOUND IN: Middlemarch by George Eliot

bibliopathy wrote 1 week ago: A novel idea? … more →

Tags: Found in Books, Books, Middlemarch, Haddock, Found Items

E.M. Forster, "Howards End"

katflei wrote 1 week ago: 1910 The Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen (and their brother Tibby) are half-German intellectual … more →

Tags: Novels, 20th century British, Austen, Brideshead Revisited, Class, Downton Abbey, Forster, Howards End, Ishiguro

Wisdom Revisited — 7 comments

hughcurtler wrote 1 week ago: No one has asked, but the topic fascinates me, so I will ruminate again briefly on the nature of wis … more →

Tags: Hugh's blogs, Dostoevsky, Edith Wharton, Greek Poets, j d salinger, Joseph Conrad, Shakespeare

Iris Murdoch, "The Bell"

katflei wrote 1 week ago: 1958 Like Waugh and Greene, in The Bell Iris Murdoch takes up the problem of faith – once agai … more →

Tags: Novels, 20th century British, 20b, Women Writers, waugh, byatt, Murdoch, Lessing, Novels 2


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