Author:George Eliot

George Eliot
(1819–1880)

George Eliot

Works

Novels

• Adam Bede (First Edition) (1859)
  • Fourth Edition - author's revisions confined to the willow wand passage in Chapter IV.
  • Eighth Edition corrected by the Author
  • A New Edition printed from the plates of the Tenth Edition (corrected Eighth Edition) with substantial revisions including a rewritten Chapter 17 (transcription project)
  • Cabinet Edition (1878) - The Cabinet edition is the standard for quotations, the last George Eliot reviewed and approved prior to her death in 1880.
• The Mill on the Floss (1860)
  • First book edition (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
  • Second edition (2 volumes 1860) - George Eliot did not contribute to the publication of this edition.
  • Third edition (1862) - Base Text for Clarendon Edition, plates used for the 1867 illustrated edition.
  • Fourth or Cabinet edition (1878) - The Cabinet edition is the standard for quotations, the last George Eliot reviewed and approved prior to her death in 1880.
• Silas Marner (1861)
• Romola (1863)
• Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
• Middlemarch: a Study in Provincial Life (1871-1872)
• Daniel Deronda (1876) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Novellas and short stories

• Scenes of Clerical Life
  • Blackwood's Magazine edition, [1st ed.] (1857)
  • First book edition, 2 vols. (1858) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

  Scenes of Clerical Life, Everyman's Library edition (1910)

• The Lifted Veil (1859)
• Brother Jacob (1864)

Poetry

• The Spanish Gypsy (a dramatic poem), 1868 IA (transcription project)
• The Legend of Jubal, 1870
• Agatha
• Armgart, 1871
• How Lisa Loved the King
• A Minor Prophet, 1874
• Brother and Sister, 1869
• Stradivarius, 1873
• Two Lovers
• Arion, 1874
• O May I Join the Choir Invisible
• A College Breakfast Party, 1879
• The Death of Moses, 1879
• Count That Day Lost
• God Needs Antonio
• I Grant You Ample Leave
• In a London Drawingroom
• Mid My Gold-Brown Curls
• Roses
• Sweet Evenings come and go, Love

Poetry compilations

• The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, 1874 IA
• The poems of George Eliot ed. Rands, William Brighty (1884) (transcription project)
• Poems, together with Brother Jacob and The lifted veil (1885) IA
• Complete poetical works (1888) (transcription project)

Essays

• Carlyle's Life of John Sterling, 1852
• Woman in France: Madame de Sablé, 1854
• Three Months in Weimar, 1855
• Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming, 1855
• German Wit : Heinrich Heine, 1856
• Natural History of German Life, 1856
• Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, 1856
• Worldliness and Other-Worldliness: the Poet Young, 1857
• The Influence of Rationalism, 1865
• Review of Owen Jones's Grammar of Ornament, 1865
• Felix Holt's Address to Workingmen

Essay compilations

• The Essays of "George Eliot", Complete (Nathan Sheppard ed.) (1883)
• Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book (1884) (transcription project)
• Early Essays by George Eliot, Westminster Press (privately printed). 1919.

Translations

• The Life of Jesus, critically examined by David Strauss, 1846

  1892 edition in one volume: IA

• The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach, 1854

Other works

• Leaves from a note-book
• Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)
• The George Eliot birthday book (1882) IA
• Life and letters (1884) IA
• Life as related in her letters and journals. ed. J.W. Cross (1885) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
• A moment each day with George Eliot, a quotation for every day in the year selected from the works of George Eliot; ed. Moore, Ella Adams (1902) IA
• Wit and wisdom of George Eliot (1873) IA
• The complete works of George Eliot (1884): George Eliot’s life as related in her letters and journals. Edited by J. W. Cross (transcription project)

Works about Eliot

Books

• George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind (1883)

Encyclopedia articles

• "Cross, Mary Ann," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Evans, Mary Ann or Marian," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Eliot, George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Eliot, George," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

On her works

• "The Novels of George Eliot" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (108) (October, 1866)
• "George Eliot's Heroines" in Littell's Living Age, 128 (1658) (1876)
• "Romola," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Silas Marner," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• George Eliot and Judaism. David Kaufmann. Translated by J. W. Ferrier. Blackwood, London. 1878.
• "George Eliot" Joseph Jacobs, Literary studies, 1896. reprinting Necrologe (1st Jan. 1881); ⁠'Theophrastus Such' (7th June 1879); ⁠'Essays' (23d Feb. 1884); Cross's 'Life' (31st Jan., 7th Feb. 1885)