Letter to Mrs Cash, envelope front
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Mrs cash
Rosehill
Coventry
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Letter to Mrs Cash, envelope front
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Mrs Cash
Keresley Vicarage
Coventry
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Letter to Mrs Cash, p.1 and 4
Eliot writes to Mary (nee Sibree) thanking her for visiting and apologising for not being able to spend more time with her. Eliot and Lewes receive seventeen other visitors on this day!
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The ...
Letter to Mrs John Cash, envelope
Transcript:
Mrs John Cash
Rosehill
Coventry
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Letter to Mrs John Cash, envelope
Transcript:
Mrs Cash
Rosehill
Coventry
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Letter to Mrs John Cash, p.1 and 4
Eliot thanks Mary for a copy of her book entitled "The Credentials of Conscience" and expresses her affection for Mary although they've not seen each other for a while.
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The Priory,
21 ...
Letter to Mrs John Cash, p.1 and 4
Mary Ann is now living with George Henry Lewes and signs this letter M.E.Lewes. She met Lewes first in 1851 but didn't start her affair with him until 1853. They lived together from 1855 until his death ...
Letter to Oscar Browning, envelope front.
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Mrs Trollope
Villa Trollope
Florence
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Letter to Oscar Browning, p.1
Eliot writes to Oscar for some photographs of Sicily. She mentions Thornton Lewes' illness, he died three months later of cancer.
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The Priory,
21, North Bank,
Regents Park
July 22. ...
Mary Ann's Coventry home
Illustration of Bird Grove, Foleshill, Coventry taken from 'Impressions of Theophrastus Such'. From 1841 to 1849, this was the home of Mary Ann and her father.
The drawing dates to around 1843, but ...
Mrs Bray
Mrs Bray from a daguerrotype. Cara Bray (nee Hennell) was one of Mary Ann's free-thinking friends.
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton ...
Nuneaton. Library
View of Nuneaton Library in the 1960s.
Nuneaton. Library
Nuneaton's new library under construction. View from church tower. Photograph taken 26 April 1961.
Portrait of George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes was George Eliot's long term partner. She first met George in 1851, but didn't begin her affair with him until 1853. They lived together from 1855 until his death in November 1878.
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Portrait of Robert Evans
Robert Evans, Mary Ann's father, taken from the miniature by Carlisle painted in 1842.
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from ...
Sara Hennell
Sara Hennell from a daguerrotype Sara became Mary Ann's friend after meeting at the Bray's house; Rosehill in Coventry.
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the ...
South Farm, interior.
Mary Ann was born at South Farm, Arbury Hall estate on 22nd November 1819 the family moved four or five months later to Griff House on the outskirts of the Arbury estate. Her father Robert Evans was ...
South Farm, parlour.
Mary Ann was born at South Farm, Arbury Hall estate on 22nd November 1819 the family moved four or five months later to Griff House on the outskirts of the Arbury estate. Her father Robert Evans was ...