Born on this day – George Eliot:

George Eliot

Writer

Translator

November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880

Credits:

Books:

Adam Bede (1859); Brother Jacob (1864); Daniel Deronda (1876); Felix Holt, the Radical (1866); Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879); Middlemarch (1871–1872); Review of John Ruskin’s Modern Painters in Westminster Review (April 1856); Romola (1863); Scenes of Clerical Life / The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton / Mr Gilfil’s Love Story / Janet’s Repentance (1857); Silas Marner (1861); Silly Novels by Lady Novelists (1856); The Influence of Rationalism (1865); The Lifted Veil (1859); The Mill on the Floss (1860); The Natural History of German Life (1856); Three Months in Weimar (1855); Translations: The Life of Jesus Volume 2 by David Strauss (1846) / The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (1854) / The Ethics of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedict de Spinoza (1856).

Poems:

A College Breakfast Party (1879); A Minor Prophet (1865); Agatha (1868); Arion (1873); Armgart (1870); Brother and Sister (1869); Evenings Come and Go, Love (1878); How Lisa Loved the King (1869); I Grant You Ample Leave (1874); In a London Drawingroom (1865); Knowing That I Must Shortly Put Off This Tabernacle (1840); Self and Life (1879); Stradivarius (1873); The Choir Invisible (1867); The Death of Moses (1879); The Legend of Jubal (1874); The Spanish Gypsy (1868); Two Lovers (1866).

Movies and television:

A Fair Exchange (1909); A Simple Twist of Fate (1994); Adam Bede (1915 / 1918); Are Children to Blame? (1920); Daniel Deronda (1921 / 1970 / 2002); Felix Holt (1915); George Eliot: A Scandalous Life (2002); Gwendolin (1914); Harvest of Hate (1940); Les liens du coeur (1996); Matinee Theatre (1957); Middlemarch (1968 / 1994); Monodrama Theater (1953); Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story (1920); Novela (1970); Romola (1911 / 1924); Santa Cecilia (1911); Screen One (1992); Silas Marner (1911 / 1913 / 1916 / 1922 / 1964 / 1985); The Mill on the Floss (1915 / 1936 / 1965 / 1997); The Mill on the Floss / TV mini-series (1978–1979); Wishbone (1995).