Author Spotlight: George Eliot

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[charlottegadsby]

I find it so weird that people all around the world are reading books from the person who literally lived where I live right now. She lived in Nuneaton. I live in Nuneaton. A really remote county that literally no one knows about. Her name is George eliot, I just finished school at the George eliot school. I was born in George eliot hospital and Middlemarch school is literally 30 seconds from where I live. It’s so weird that I take where I live for granted. Oh and also, I live in the county where Shakespeare was born just saying 😂😂 loads of what she writes about I literally drive past everyday and it’s so weird.

[aadriantristan]

I cried after reading'' Mill on the floss. ""

[bonChic]

I thought and agreed with Henry James that Silas Marner is her best and most entertaining work. It was sensational and had blockbuster potential. Except that Middlemarch really changed my life too, and I owe it to "her"

[beckf]

Adam Bede was my first Eliot novel, and I read for my British Women Writer's class in college. I've read Middlemarch and Silas Marner over the past couple of years, but Adam Bede is still my favorite. Great video. More people need to sing Eliot's praises.

[azuki]

Thank you for featuring George Eliot.
Eliot's novels have attracted me because her coherant message through almost entire of all works is that she honestly depicted
human suffering between own (instinctive)will and some sort of criteria which society and era press on them.And even she decided to follow her own will, she described how she suffeered between the two.No matter which she chose she admit the fact she suffered.

As far as I understand, her novel are not romance based.Instead humano agony fighting based.

[michelleelford]

I really like George Eliot. I didn't know all that about her personal life so that was interesting to hear! I've read Adam Aberdeen and Silas Marner and really liked them. I found them to start out kind of slow and then there's this turning point and I fly through the rest. Really want to keep reading her books - Mill on the Floss sounds amazing and of course Middlemarch. Great video!

[margaretg]

Great introduction to George Elliot. Time I read her and nice to know where to start.
This question is a bit off topic but I am wondering if you have read Lorna Doone and if so what you thought of it.

[donnierussellii]

I just finished The Mill on the Floss. It is written so intelligently and succinctly, but it also borders on long-windedness about mundane things, but the earnestness of the telling makes it okay. The complex relationship between Tom and Maggie is funny, frustrating, tragic. We see the world as a place where we can create a life for ourselves, but it isn't that simple.

I read Middlemarch so long ago, I don't know if it would be any different from going in fresh.

[ratherrapid]

Read 4 of them, Middlemarch twice--where r they on my goat list?--#3 Romola, #4 Daniel Deronda #6 Middle March #13 Felix Holt the Radical. Romola is brilliantly written throughout, but the last 20% elevates it to GE''s best imo--partly driven by the history and also by the high intellectual ability of the author. Felix Holt might be her most entertaining--the story of Ester Lyons exceeds that imo of Dorothea Brooke, and it has some of the most interesting scenes relating to the relationships between elderly women and their adult sons.

[rachellindorfer]

how the heck did u read middlemarch in two days... did u absorb any of it???

[Hannah-xnst]

Where did you get your bookshelves from?

[dianadutreuil]

Hi I was readying this text but didn't really understand chpater 7, can you please interpret chapter 7 for me? It was a little confusing for me.

[rafthejaf]

You read it in two days??? 😳 WTF! Did you sleep during that time?

[tinewordsmith]

It took me a month to finish Middlemarch because, you know..

WORK🙄🙄🙄🙄

[AshleighMuses]

I think I have said it to you in the past, but Middlemarch is actually my least favourite Eliot. I really need to reread it, I think I wasn't in the right place when I read it the first time. I'd love to revisit it having read nearly all the rest of her bibliography! (Just Romola and Felix Holt to go! Oh, and Silly Novels by Lady Novellists, obviously!)

And I have you to thank, because it was your review of Middlemarch which started me on my Eliot love affair! ❤️

Adam Bede I would highly recommend the audiobook for. It was a lot slower than Daniel Deronda - and I read it almost straight after that. The audiobook was really good and kept me plodding along at it! I think it's easy to tell it's one of her earlier novels (earliest?), but its still good. Just not quite Daniel Deronda 😛

[Knee-JerkReactor]

You're not fooling anyone, you know. That copy of 'Middlemarch' hasn't been read! 😉