Notebooks of George Eliot, labelled "Miscellaneous quotations" and "Interesting extracts" [manuscript], 1868 August-ca. 1870, ca. 1879.

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Notebooks of George Eliot, labelled "Miscellaneous quotations" and "Interesting extracts" [manuscript], 1868 August-ca. 1870, ca. 1879.

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Notes of her reading (in several languages): literary, historical, linguistic, and scientific. In the pocket at the end of M.a.13 is a memorial card to Valère Joseph Hayman (1844-1869).

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Hayman, Valère Joseph 1844-1869

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Eliot, George, 1819-1880

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Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, George Eliot was the daughter of a land agent who managed estates in the rural midlands, a formative experience that gave her an insight into country society that later greatly influenced and enriched her first works of fiction. At different times of her life, she also spelled her name as Mary Anne, Marian, and Marianne, adopting the pen-name of Eliot only after her first work of fiction was published in 1857. Eliot was brought up in a narrow...