E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Eliot, George,
Mrs. J. W. Cross, née Marian Evans (b. November 22nd, 1819 d. December 22nd, 1880). Besides translations of Strauss’s “Life of Jesus” (1846) and Feuerbach’s “Essence of Christianity” (1853), she published:—“Scenes of Clerical Life” (1858); “Adam Bede” (1859); “The Mill on the Floss” (1860); “Silas Marner” (1861); “Romola” (1863); “Felix Holt” (1866); “Middlemarch” (1871–72); “Daniel Deronda” (1876); “Impressions of Theophrastus Such” (1879); “The Spanish Gipsy” (1868); “The Legend of Jubal” (1874). See R. H. Hutton’s “Essays” and “The Beauties of George Eliot.” For Biography, see the “Life” by J. W. Cross and Mathilde Blind’s “George Eliot” in the Eminent Women series.
