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Oration Of Kathleen Adams

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If William Shakespeare is the most famous writer to have come out of Warwickshire, the runner-up is undoubtedly George Eliot. Her greatest novel, Middlemarch, reflects the life of the city of Coventry in the early nineteenth century. Mrs. Kathleen Adams is herself a native of Coventry and has completed 25 years as the secretary of the George Eliot Fellowship. She attended Barr's Hill Grammar School; after leaving school she worked in the local Inland Revenue office where she met her future husband. After the birth of her two children she worked for 23 years as a school secretary at Coundon …

Wreath-Laying In The George Eliot Memorial Gardens, Nuneaton, Michael Sadgrove

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I am honoured to have been asked to lay a wreath in memory of George Eliot this afternoon. And, I can truly say, I do it in grateful memory. Not many years ago I would have to have confessed that I had not yet read any of her novels. On coming to Coventry, I decided to remedy this situation. For me, whatever town or city I have lived in, its sense of place has been defined very much by its literary associations, the part it has played in the imaginations of its writers and poets. As far as Coventry is …

Westminster Abbey Wreath-Laying June 20th 1992, Kathleen Adams

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George Eliot and religion is a vast subject and one that can only be lightly touched on today. But it is relevant to our being here because of the memorial stone in front of us. It took 100 years to get here and, because of the years of fund-raising by the George Eliot Fellowship as well as the many visits to the Abbey to negotiate the placing of the memorial stone in Poets' Corner in June 1980, is perhaps even more significant to us than a tomb or memorial would be that bad been erected in 1880 instead of 1980. …

The Heroic Journey Of Troilus And Cressida, Kelly A. Weatherman

Theses & Honors Papers

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The Manifestation Of Thomas Hardy's Agnosticism In Jude The Obscure And Other Works, Joy Fitzgerald

Theses & Honors Papers

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Orts 26, 1992, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

FORTHCOMING EVENTS * MAY LECTURE* Aidan Mackay of the G.K. Chesterton Study Centre will give a talk on George MacDonald – His Influence upon G.K. Chesterton and C.S.Lewis The lecture will take place at 6.30 on Wednesday May 13th in Room 27c King’s College, Strand WC2.

Orts 25, 1992, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

LAST YEAR’S A.G.M. was held on Friday November 22nd 1991 at 58a Westbourne Park Villas. Twelve members were present with one observer and apologies from seven members. The Chairman began by welcoming everyone warmly and thanked the members of the Committee for their recent efforts. He also expressed the regret of the Society that Kathy Triggs was no longer able to continue with the editing of Orts.

Orts 27, 1992, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

MEMORIAL UNVEILING CEREMONY The memorial, in memory of George MacDonald and his wife, is to be unveiled in Drumblade Churchyard on October 3rd. The programme is as follows: 2.30pm at Drumblade Church (some 2 miles north of Huntly) Gathering in church with eulogy and songs by choir, followed by the unveiling and light refreshments. 7.30pm at The Brander Library, Huntly Town Square. Evening gathering with talk on MacDonald’s letters. The MacDonald exhibition will also be open and there will be a bookstall. All members are cordially invited to both events, For bed and breakfast following are suggested:

Lydia Gwilt: Wilkie Collins’S Satanic, Sirenic Psychotic, Jonathan Craig Tutor

Studies in English, New Series

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Robert Graves’S Dilemma Of The Storyteller: Multiple Narratives In “The Shout”, Kirk H. Beetz

Studies in English, New Series

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Shakespeare And The Aggression Of Children, Morris Henry Partee

Studies in English, New Series

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Two Altered Endings—Dickens And Bulwer Lytton, John Cloy

Studies in English, New Series

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The Feminism Of Rosamond Lehmann’S Novels, Harriet Blodgett

Studies in English, New Series

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Staging Personal Chaos And Fragmentation: The Plays Of Doris Lessing, Dorothy H. Brown

Studies in English, New Series

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Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit A.M.D.G., John Stasriy

Studies in English, New Series

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Robert Browning’S Cleon: A Natural Man, George F. Horneker

Studies in English, New Series

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“‘The Duca Di Crinola’”—What’S In A Name?, Rebecca Jordan

Studies in English, New Series

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Evoking Emma In “Poems Of 1912-13”, William C. Duckworth Jr.

Studies in English, New Series

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Ella D’Arcy, First Lady Of The Decadents, Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

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Cooper And Wordsworth, Lance Schachterle

Studies in English, New Series

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“The Eve Of St Agnes” And The Seductive Mystery Of Imagination, Lyndel P. Colglazier

Studies in English, New Series

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Gilbert And Sullivan And The Brooklyn Bridge: Two Newly Discovered Letters, G. A. Cevasco

Studies in English, New Series

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Love, Labor, And Sloth In Chaucer’S Troilus And Criseyde, Gregory M. Sadlek

English Faculty Publications

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George Eliot's First Family: The Bartons Of Shepperton, Michael Wolff

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There are a lot of 'firsts' in the few months between September 1856 when Marian Evans Lewes began 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton' and February 1857 when she adopted George Eliot as a pseudonym. The Bartons were the first of her many families. The words of the title were, according to her own recollection, the first words of her new career. She was at the time in the process of making a new, it could be argued, a 'first family', in the new life she was sharing with George Henry Lewes and his young sons. And George …

The George Eliot Review: Journal Of The George Eliot Fellowship: 1992 No. 23, Graham Handley, Beryl Gray

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Contents

Notes on Contributors.............. 4

Jonathan Ouvry: Message of Greeting from the Fellowship President................. 5

Editorial Notes........................ 6

Kathleen Adams: Annual Report 1991...................... 7

Graham Handley & Beryl Gray: London Branch Report 1991....................... 11

Joanne Shattock: Wreath-laying in the George Eliot Memorial Gardens, Nuneaton, June 16th 1991........................ 14

Bill Adams: Wreath-laying at Westminster Abbey, June 22nd 1992..................... 18

Gina Quant: The Toast to the Immortal Memory. George Eliot Birthday Luncheon, 24th November 1991...................... 21

Jenny Uglow: George Eliot and Mrs. Gaskell. The Twentieth George Eliot Memorial Lecture, 26th October 1991...................25

Review Of Greatness Engendered: George Eliot And Virginia Woolf, Alison Booth

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This detailed study is in the series Reading Women Writing, and it presupposes not only a familiarity with everything that George Eliot and Virginia Woolf wrote but also a comprehensive knowledge of scholarship and criticism about them. Miss Booth writes with verve and, at times, directness and wit. She tells us that 'In effect Eliot and Woolf are palace spies, consorting with patriarchal traditions to expose their flaws.' The ensuing examination is a searching one which moves from acknowledged subjectivity to informed (and consistent) perspectives. The weight of running scholarship and cross reference sometimes threatens to sink the narrative, but …

Review Of George Eliot And The Conflict Of Interpretations: A Reading Of The Novels, David Carroll

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Towards the climax of Felix Holt Esther Lyon moves centre stage. Mist around her own history and that of Transome Court dissolves to reveal a vista of possibilities. The narrator comments: 'Esther found it impossible to read in these days; her life was a book which she seemed to be constructing - trying to make character clear before her, and looking into the ways of destiny'. This lovely sentence might serve as the epigraph to David Carroll's study. A character in a novel, who is well-versed in romance narrative, finds herself an author, 'constructing' the book of her own life, …

Review Of George Eliot, Kristin Brady

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The general editors of this series, Eva Figes and Adele King, explain that there is a need for their series of feminist readings because much of the criticism on selected women writers by male critics is usually unfair, false or simplistic (vii). Kristin Brady very quickly and effectively proves their point in the first chapter of George Eliot by referring to many influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century male critics who were often more preoccupied with Eliot's appearance or what they judged to be her suspect femininity than with a straightforward consideration of her artistic achievements. Among such critics, says Brady, Gordon …

Adam Bede: Author, Narrator And Narrative, Cynthia Huggins

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Readers of novels seem to have a natural, almost instinctive, tendency to perceive the voices of the author and the omniscient narrator as being one and the same. This tendency is even stronger when the narrator is blatantly intrusive, frequently inserting his own opinions into the objective narrative material of the novel. And although there are certainly some novelists who truly intend their narrative voices to be perceived as their own, this is not the case with George Eliot in Adam Bede.

In analyzing the narrative voice in this particular novel, I was struck by the almost total agreement, on …

Bbc Television's Film Of Adam Bede, Kathleen Adams

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This adaption was not for the academic, the scholar or the purist. As none of these, I admit that, with reservations, I enjoyed the film.

There were some very good things about it. The setting was very attractive (Stanway in the Cotswolds for much of the action because it is one of the least changed parts of England) and the photography superb, particularly in the Chase when the sunlight filtering through the trees made an extremely pretty picture. The fight between Arthur and Adam was well staged. lain Glen as Adam portrayed the strength and integrity of the character convincingly; …