I discuss two short poems from George Eliot and discuss her evolving religious convictions:

Two Lovers (1866): https://georgeeliotarchive.org/files/original/6d9d73d518cef27c2c5ff931085a1c64.pdf

O May I Join the Choir Invisible (1867): https://georgeeliotarchive.org/files/original/adc7ee0cc941b72ddba7b60fc7ff4480.pdf

Sorry for the poor sound quality - technical glitches and all ...

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Felix Holt, the hero of George Eliot's 5th novel, comes to life and writes an essay for Blackwood's Magazine to explain the new burdens and responsibilities for England's working men who have just been enfranchised. All similarities to current political events are purely coincidental.

Felix Holt's address to working men was published in Blackwood's Magazine (January, 1868) : https://georgeeliotarchive.org/files/original/cdeafd28c34727fcfbc66595ed3247df.pdf

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I discuss George Eliot's 5th novel, Felix Holt : The Radical, published in 1866 by John Blackwood. Although Felix Holt is one of her least read novels, it has thus far become one of my favorites. Thank you for watching.

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Another video in my series on George Eliot‘s life in literature. I am 11 videos and I am finally on George Eliot‘s very first full length novel Adam Bede, published in 1859. At this point in her career, George Eliot excels in character development and the cinematic description of the environment that she is describing. But she still cannot create strong female love interest and she has no idea how to enter her stories. So far George Elliot is 4 for 4 in having a weak female lead who dies by the end of the story. But it is still early in her career and though she shows potential I am hoping that her novels improve over time.

For those of you familiar with the band Jethro Tull, I am convinced that the Jethro Tull song Velvet Green is based on the novel Adam Bede. Here is a link to a 1977 performance of that song. Check out the lyrics and tell me I am wrong..!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2snYD_lRAGk

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I briefly discuss the four satirical articles that George Eliot submitted to the fledgling Pall Mall Gazette in 1865. Thank you for watching

Sources:
All articles were published in the Pall Mall Gazette, founded in 1865 by George Smith and Frederick Greenwood :

A Word for the Germans (March 7): https://georgeeliotarchive.org/files/original/918cdf5f6bac16cc78c9e89498960d3d.pdf

Servants' Logic (March 17): https://georgeeliotarchive.org/files/original/f1ee4b6814ce12943265053f2c482301.pdf

Futile Falsehoods (under the pseudonym of 'Sacharissa', April 3): https://georgeeliotarchive.org/files/original/b566623af0e8a35d2ff0c6e8797b9dd3.pdf

Modern Housekeeping (under the pseudonym of 'Sacharissa', May 13): https://georgeeliotarchive.org/files/original/63fa00182e82a404f8fd1b300b16c14f.pdf

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Originally uploaded on April 27, 2020

briefly discuss the first of many epic length poems from George Eliot's mid to later literary career. A Minor Prophet, also called The Utopia or My Vegetarian Friend, written in 1865. Thank you for watching

Sources:
A Minor Prophet: http://georgeeliotarchive.org/files/o...

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Book Discussion, Book Review, Victorian Literature, Booktube
Originally published on YouTube: 09 May 2020

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