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Who marries Casaubon in George Eliot's "Middlemarch"?
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What was the profession of Adam Bede in George Eliot's novel of the same name?
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Middlemarch by George Eliot is partly concerned with the build up to which parliamentary act?
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What was the connection between Mary Ann Evans, a.k.a. George Eliot, and the game of chess?
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Which of the following was not written by George Eliot?
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What was George Eliot's real name?George Eliot
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Which of the following novels did George Eliot NOT write?
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Who wrote A Damsel in Distress?
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Who was the recipient, in 1879, of the first ever honorary doctorate awarded to a novelist by Oxford University?
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Which novelist called Oscar Wilde "an unclean beast" and "a fatuous cad" after meeting him?
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What was George Eliot's real name?
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Which of these characters does NOT appear in the title of a novel by George Eliot?
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![What was [a:George Eliot|173|George Eliot|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190493613p2/173.jpg]'s final novel?](http://photo.goodreads.com/questions/1228842748p1/29312.jpg)
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What was George Eliot's final novel?
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What is George Eliot's real name?
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In Silas Marner by George Eliot, who does Silas name the newly orphaned child after?
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In Silas Marner by George Eliot, how does Eppie's mother die, leaving Eppie an orphan?
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True or False: The children's book series 'Wishbone,' retells the story of Silas Marner by George Eliot.
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Silas Marner by George Eliot, was made into a movie in which Steve Martin starred. What was the movie called?
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19th century philosopher and literary critic George Henry Lewes caused a stir when he went against Victorian conventions to engage in a permanent extramarital relationship with ...
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"Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes, steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end, as I ended, in falling in love with her."
Who said this, about whom?
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In 1880 Henry James visited the widower of a recently deceased novelist whom he greatly admired. The novelist in question was married only a very short time to this man but, James said: "He, poor fellow, is left very much lamenting; but my private impression is that if she had not died, she would have killed him. He couldn't keep up the intellectual pace -- all Dante and Goethe, Cervantes and the Greek tragedians. As he said himself, it was a carthorse yoked to a racer: several hours a day spent in reading aloud the most immortal of works." Who is the remarkable novelist in question?
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Cynthia Ozick's story "Puttermesser Paired" has as its intertext the love relations of a famous 19th-century novelist. In this scene Rupert Rabeeno is reading to his wife-to-be, Ruth Puttermesser:
"She watched him reconstruct Johnny Cross. Johnny Cross was anyhow a puzzlement. No one knew him really. He was expected to be 'deep' and he wasn't. He was handsome and genial and athletic and rich. He was no intellectual, though he worked at it gamely, the same plucky way he chopped down a clump of trees or devotedly smacked at a tennis ball. He was a tremendous swimmer. He wasn't even remotely a writer, but he did turn out one astonishing book -- astonishingly chiefly because Johnny Cross had written it: '__________'s Life.' The title was as obvious and direct as he was. He plugged away at it after she died: it was a genuflection."
Who was the subject of Cross' biography, and his one-time wife?
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Which novelist was, according to Henry James, "both sweet and superior, and has a delightful expression in her large, long, pale, equine face. I had my turn at sitting beside her and being conversed with in a low, but most harmonious tone; and bating a tendency to 'aborder' only the highest themes I have no fault to find with her"?
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Which novelist left this caricature of one of Henry James' sentences after having had tea with him?
"My dear, they tell me, they tell me, they tell me, that you -- as indeed being your father's daughter, nay your grandfather's grandchild, the descendant, descendant of a century -- of a century -- of quill pen and ink, ink, in pots, yes, yes, yes, they tell me ahmmm, that you, that you, that you write in short."
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Which one of George Eliot's novels has as its subtitle: "The Weaver of Raveloe"?
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Of whom did Virginia Woolf say:
"Of all the great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness"?
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A certain Mrs Mitford, who knew a famous future author as a child, later recalled her as having been "the prettiest, silliest, most affected husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers." Who is the author in question?
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Who gave us the following appreciation of Jane Austen's work?
"Jane Austen is thus a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears upon the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there. What she offers is, apparently, a trifle, yet is composed of something that expands in the reader's mind and endows with the most enduring form of life scenes which are outwardly trivial. Always the stress is laid upon character. ... Think away the surface animation, the likeness to life, and there remains, to provide a deeper pleasure, an exquisite discrimination of human values. Dismiss this too from the mind and one can dwell with extreme satisfaction upon the more abstract art which ... so varies the emotions and proportions the parts that it is possible to enjoy it, as one enjoys poetry, for itself, and not as a link which carries the story this way and that."
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F.R. Leavis' famous work of literary criticism, The Great Tradition, opens with the statement: "The great English novelists are ...." Which one of these is NOT on his select list of four?
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Of whom does Q.D. Leavis complain here?
"She has none of that natural piety, that richness of feeling and sense of a moral order, of experience as a process of growth, in which George Eliot's local criticisms are embedded and which give the latter her large stature."
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