George Eliot

Date

1819–1880

Description

City of birth: Nuneaton
Country of birth: United Kingdom
Field of activity: Culture — literature

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Quotes

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Author

Lena Dunham

Speaker

Lena Dunham

Title of the publication

FYI George Eliot's Wikipedia page is the soapiest most scandalous thing you'll read this month. Thesis: she was ugly AND horny!

Other contributors

n/a

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Twitter

City of publication

New York

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

16 September 2013, 3.18 am

Location [pp. or web]

https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/379293041892134912?lang=en

Original language

English

Genre

Context

Lena Dunham is an American actress, writer, director and producer and is widely known as the writer and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017). In 2013, Dunham was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. She has 5.5 million followers on twitter where her outspoken comments often result in significant media scrutiny.

‘It is not in her conceptions nor her composition that George Eliot is strongest: it is in her touches. In these she is quite original. She is a good deal of a humorist, and something of a satirist; but she is neither Dickens nor Thackeray. She has over them the great advantage that she is also a good deal of a philosopher; and it is to this union of the keenest observation with the ripest reflection, that her style owes its essential force. She is a thinker, not, perhaps, a passionate thinker, but at least a serious one; and the term can be applied with either adjective neither to Dickens nor Thackeray. The constant play of lively and vigorous thought about the objects furnished by her observation animates these latter with a surprising richness of color and a truly human interest. It gives to the author's style, moreover, that lingering, affectionate, comprehensive quality which is its chief distinction; and perhaps occasionally it makes her tedious.’

Author

Henry James

Speaker

Henry James

Title of the publication

The Novels of George Eliot

Other contributors

n/a

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Atlantic Monthly

City of publication

Boston

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

1866

Location [pp. or web]

Volume 19, Number 108

Other location

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Atlantic_Monthly/Volume_18/Number_108/The_Novels_of_George_Eliot

Original language

English

Genre

Magazine

Context

Henry James (1843–1916) was born in New York. He spent a significant amount of time in Europe as a young man, and in 1869 he settled in London, finally becoming a naturalized English citizen in1915. He is considered one of the great novelists of the English language, his most famous book being The Portrait of a Lady.