Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . wn as the Five-Foot-Shelf Library. (Collier, New York,1910). ELIOT, GEORGE, the pen name ofMary Ann or Marian Evans, an Eng-lish novelist; born near Nuneaton, , 1820. She received at Coventry anexcellent education, and shortly afterher 21st year became a convert to Ra-tionalism. Her first literary undertakingwas the completion of Mrs. Hennellstranslation of Strauss Life of Jesus(1846). After spending two yearsabroad she became subeditor of the ELIOT 506 ELIZABETH West
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . wn as the Five-Foot-Shelf Library. (Collier, New York,1910). ELIOT, GEORGE, the pen name ofMary Ann or Marian Evans, an Eng-lish novelist; born near Nuneaton, , 1820. She received at Coventry anexcellent education, and shortly afterher 21st year became a convert to Ra-tionalism. Her first literary undertakingwas the completion of Mrs. Hennellstranslation of Strauss Life of Jesus(1846). After spending two yearsabroad she became subeditor of the ELIOT 506 ELIZABETH Westminster Review. In January,1857, she came prominently into publicnotice with a series of tales entitledScenes from Clerical Life. In thefollowing year the publication of AdamBede placed her in the first rank ofwriters of fiction. It was succeeded bythe Mill on the Floss (1860); SilasMarner (1861); Romola (1863);Felix Holt (1866) ; Middlemarch(1872), and Daniel Deronda (1876).She published also three volumes of verse,The Spanish Gypsy (1868); Agatha(1869), and the Legend of Jubal(1874). Her last work published during. GEORGE ELIOT her life was The Impressions of Theo-phrastus Such (1879), but a volume ofmixed essays was issued many years she was happily associ-ated in life and work with George HenryLewes, though a legal union was im-possible during the lifetime of , In May, 1880, after Mr. Lewes*death, she married Mr, John Cross, butdid not survive the marriage manymonths, dying rather suddenly at Chelseaon Dec. 22 of that year. ELIOT, JOHN, the Indian Apostle;born probably at Widford in Hertford-shire, in 1604. He graduated at Cam-bridge in 1622, and, after taking ordersin the Church of England, emigrated toBoston, Mass., in 1631. In 1646, aftertwo years study of the language, he de-livered a long sermon in the native di-alect at Nonantum; other meetings soonfollowed. He shortly after began toestablish his converts in regular settle-ments, his work mee
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