Eliot, George

Eliot, George
► (1819-80) Seudónimo de Mary Ann Evans, escritora británica. Su gran sensibilidad y vasta cultura se reflejan en su obra, de alto valor estético y humano. Autora de Mediados de marzo (1871-72).

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orig. Mary Ann Evans post. Marian Evans

(22 nov. 1819, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, Inglaterr–22 dic. 1880, Londres).

Novelista inglesa. Eliot fue criada en los rigurosos principios de la piedad evangélica, pero rompió con la ortodoxia religiosa alrededor de los 20 años. Trabajó como traductora, crítica y subeditora de la Westminster Review (1851–54). Más tarde se dedicó a la narrativa. Adoptó un seudónimo masculino para librarse de los prejuicios contra las novelistas mujeres. Su primera obra fue Escenas de la vida clerical (1858), a la que siguieron obras clásicas del género, como Adam Bede (1859), El molino junto al Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical [Felix Holt, el radical] (1866) y Daniel Deronda (1876). Su obra maestra, Middlemarch (1871–72), propone un completo estudio de todas las clases de la sociedad provinciana. El método de análisis psicológico que desarrolló, llegaría a convertirse en un rasgo característico de la narrativa moderna. Tuvo una relación sentimental larga y feliz, aunque escandalosa, con el periodista, filósofo y crítico George Henry Lewes (n. 1817–m. 1878), un hombre casado; sus salones de los domingos por la tarde eran uno de los aspectos más brillantes de la vida intelectual victoriana.

George Eliot, dibujo al clarión de F.W. Burton, 1865; National Portrait Gallery, Londres.
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Enciclopedia Universal. 2012.

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