Biography

Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. London: Clarendon Press, 1968, 616 p.

Regarded by many as the definitive biography of Eliot.

May, J. Lewis. George Eliot. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1930, 359 p.

Early biography of Eliot which aims to revive interest in the author and her works.

Redinger, Ruby V. George Eliot: The Emergent Self. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975, 540 p.

Approaches Eliot's life and work from a psychoanalytical point of view.

Criticism

Bloom, Harold, ed. George Eliot. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986, 260 p.

Collection of essays on Eliot's novels by well-known critics such as F. R. Leavis, Dorothy Van Ghent, Barbara Hardy, and J. Hillis Miller.

Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds. George Eliot. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985, 163 p.

Brief overview of Eliot's life, followed by analyses of the themes and aesthetics which dominate her work, particularly her novels.

Godwin, Gail. "Would We Have Heard of Marian Evans?" Ms. 3, No. 3 (September 1974): 72-5.

Examines the characters in George Eliot's novels in relation to the author's own life, gender, and physical appearance.

Haight, Gordon S., ed. The George Eliot Letters: Volume VIII: 1840-1870. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978.

Includes a letter from Anthony Trollope to Eliot's companion, George Henry Lewes, critiquing Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy.

Holmstrom, John, and Lerner, Laurence, eds. George Eliot and Her Readers. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1966, 190 p.

Anthology of contemporary reviews, mainly of Eliot's novels; meant to demonstrate the opinions of Eliot's readers during her lifetime.

Pangallo, Karen L., ed. The Critical Response To George Eliot. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994, 233 p.

Provides a representative selection of essays on and reviews of Eliot's novels.

Speirs, John. "Poetry into Novel." In his Poetry towards Novel, pp. 283-333. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.

Argues that there is a strong relationship between Eliot's novels and the works of poets such as Shakespeare.

Wade, Rosalind. "George Eliot and Her Poetry." Contemporary Review 204 (July 1963): 38-42.

Briefly examines the concern with human emotions revealed in Eliot's poetry.

Additional coverage of Eliot's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vols. 4,13, 23, 41, 49; DisCovering Authors; World Literature Criticism; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 21, 35, 55; and Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography..