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The George Eliot Fellowship was founded by Mr A F Cross on 9th November 1930.
The title of 'Fellowship' rather than society was a personal choice of Mr Cross, as he felt it to be most suited to admirers of a woman who still had a message for present and future generations.
George Eliot Visitor Centre
Read about the Fellowship's ambitious plans to develop a visitor centre on the site of the outbuildings at Griff House, Nuneaton.
George Eliot Essay Prize Winners
“Borne Along by a Wave”: George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss as Music Drama
The 2022 Prize winning essay has been awarded this year to Connor Page, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia
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George Eliot’s Enchanted Real by Georgia Walton
The 2021 Prize winning essay has been awarded this year to Georgia Walton PhD candidate at the University of Leeds
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Meet the writer...George Eliot Review
The George Eliot Review Online is a digital archive of nearly 50 years’ worth of the George Eliot Fellowship’s George Eliot Review. Since 1970, the Fellowship has published an annual journal of society updates, speeches, analytical essays, and reviews of books related to George Eliot.
GEF Council
John Rignall
President
I studied at the universities of Cambridge and Sussex and taught first at the University of Bonn, Germany, and then in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the Univ...
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John Burton
Chair
George Eliot was just one of the many novelists one reads for a degree, but it was coming to Nuneaton and Coventry as a teacher that drew me to look more deeply and with increasing interest int...
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