George+Eliot

Nathan Fisher and David Herald Karen Chase ENG 321 14 April 2009

Annotated Bibliography //For the purpose of learning the use and application of annotated bibliographies, as well as to further our experience with proper research techniques, we are doing a project in language arts class. The topic we were assigned is the famed British author, Mary Anne Evans, who wrote under the pseudonym “George Eliot.” Our task is to become familiar with her life, works, arrange a proper annotated bibliography, and create and present a PowerPoint slideshow to educate our classmates on the subject.//

"George Eliot - Biography and Works." __The Literature Network: Online classic literature, poems, and quotes. Essays & Summaries__. 13 Apr. 2009 .

This article describes the life of George Eliot including allusions to real people and real events that can be found in her works. This allows the reader to relate George Eliot’s more famous works to her biography, giving good insight to her personal life. We used this article to compare and contrast facts form two other sources that included broad biographies.

"George Eliot / Mary Ann Evans." __Quotations for Creative Thinking__. 13 Apr. 2009 .

This article gave a short biography of Mary Ann Evans’ life. It was especially useful because it mentions all of her most famous works, as well as some of her lesser ones. It includes works such as //Adam Bede//, //The Mill on the Floss//, //Middlemarch//, and //The Spanish Gypsy. //It really demonstrated the vast number of works she produced, even through all the tragedies and conflicts she was confronted with in life//.//

"George Eliot: Biography." __University of Virginia Library__. 13 Apr. 2009 .

This was our primary source as well as the first one we came across that we deemed appropriate and useful enough to include. It provides a lengthy, detailed description of Mary’s life from birth to death. It explains about her troubles with confidence, love, and illness while creating a window into her life. To ensure accuracy, we checked this source with several others.

"George Eliot." __Www.kirjasto.sci.fi__. 13 Apr. 2009 . This selection offers a very brief biography as well as a brief list of works. We used the biography included to check our primary sources with, and they matched. We also used the list of works to compare with our other source full of works to gain better insight as to which ones are more commonly known. It was a very useful article, despite its brevity.

Karl, Frederick Robert. __George Eliot Voice of a Century; A Biography__. Boston: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. This book is a biography of George Eliot, told with a different tone than the other biographies we read. Karl depicts Eliot’s life as a perfect portrayal of the "the ambiguities, the anguish, and divisiveness of the Victorian era” rather than simply telling her story and praising her works. He analyzes her works and life as a female author and how it affected her writing and the criticism she received. The book was incredibly voluminous, so rather than reading it all of the way through, we read 10 page segments in sections of the book that we deemed particularly important. This source would likely have been our primary source, had it not been so large.