Her reading matter included Tennyson, Wordsworth, Milton, Coleridge, Trollope, Thackeray and George Eliot.

The novelist George Eliot also included couplets throughout her writings.

Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

Portrait of George Eliot by Samuel Laurence circa 1860

She also adopted a new nom-de-plume, the one for which she would become best known: George Eliot.

In the end, the real George Eliot stepped forward: Marian Evans Lewes admitted she was the author.

For example The George Eliot School ( Previously George Eliot Community School ) and Middlemarch Junior School.

In 1948, Nuneaton Emergency Hospital was named George Eliot Hospital in Eliot's honour.

George Eliot Road, in Foleshill, Coventry was named in her honour.

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In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

During his term as Vice President, George H. W. Bush was first depicted as completely invisible, his words emanating from a little “ voice box ” in the air.

Yet for all the failings of Erewhon, it is also clearly not a dystopia, such as that depicted by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Another hero of the Grail quest, Sir Galahad ( a 13th-century literary invention of monks from St. Bernard's Cistercian Order ) was depicted bearing a shield with the cross of Saint George, similar to the Templars ' insignia: this version presented the " Holy " Grail as a Christian relic.

Though the term " retcon " did not yet exist when George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian regime depicted in that book is involved in a constant, large-scale retconning of past records.

St. George is most commonly depicted in early icons, mosaics and frescos wearing armour contemporary with the depiction, executed in gilding and silver colour, intended to identify him as a Roman soldier.

St George is always depicted in Eastern traditions upon a white horse and St. Demetrius on a red horse St George can also be identified in the act of spearing a dragon, unlike St Demetrius, who is sometimes shown spearing a human figure, understood to represent Maximian.

During the early second millennium, George came to be seen as the model of chivalry, and during this time was depicted in works of literature, such as the medieval romances.

* Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ), a book by George Orwell, depicted a world in which two-way television screens are fitted in every room, so that people's actions are monitored at all times.

Britannia also featured on the high value Great Britain definitive postage stamps issued during the reign of George V ( known as ' seahorses ') and is depicted on the £ 10 stamp first issued in 1993.

The seal was brought from England by Colonel George Fenwick, and depicted 15 grapevines and a hand in the upper left corner with a scroll reading " Qui Sustinet Transtulit ".

Scranton in 1855, as depicted by George Inness's painting of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad roundhouse.

As with Ladenson's observation that Bond was being depicted as " the worthy knight ", Raymond Benson also identifies the Saint George theme in Goldfinger, which he says has run in all the novels, but is finally stated explicitly in the book as part of Bond's thoughts after Goldfinger reveals he will use an atomic device to open the vault: " Bond sighed wearily.

The episode marks Isabel Sanford's first appearance as Louise Jefferson ; George Jefferson would not be depicted on-screen until 1973 ( by Sherman Hemsley ).

The Hudson River painters ' directness and simplicity of vision influenced and inspired such later artists as John Kensett and the Luminists ; as well as George Inness and the tonalists ( which included Albert Pinkham Ryder and Ralph Blakelock among others ), and Winslow Homer ( 1836 – 1910 ), who depicted rural America — the sea, the mountains, and the people who lived near them.

George Catlin depicted the West and its people as honestly as possible.

De Geer in a contemporary newspaper caricature, depicted as St George fighting the four-headed dragon of the old four-chamber parliament.

These caricatures were the work of Brig .- Gen. George Townshend whose caricatures of British General James Wolfe, depicted as " Deformed and crass and hideous " ( Snell ), were drawn to amuse fellow officers.

King George V was depicted in 1911 as Admiral of the Fleet in a widely-admired design that continued in use until 1928.

However, the exact " Westernized " ( quartered ) arrangement that includes the Cross of St. George, appearing in the Spanish atlas, is never depicted or described in any Greek source.

The earliest known depictions of the motif are from tenth-or eleventh-century Cappadocia and eleventh-century Georgia ; previously, in the iconography of Eastern Orthodoxy, George had been depicted as a soldier since at least the seventh century.

Like the Coconino County depicted in George Herriman's Krazy Kat and the Okefenokee Swamp of Walt Kelly's Pogo, Dogpatch's distinctive cartoon landscape became as identified with the strip as any of its characters.

George Miller was a medical doctor in Victoria, Australia, working in a hospital emergency room, where he saw many injuries and deaths of the types depicted in the film.