26 Feb 2024
An interesting resource, esp. for those who enjoyed @LiveseyRuth’s #FindingMiddlemarch🔎project…
26 Feb 2024
Step into the world of George Eliot's novels with #CLiCCreative! 💻🪄 Our blog post offers a comprehensive keyword guide for writers & researchers looking to immerse themselves in the 19th century. ✍️📖 blog.bham.ac.uk/clic-dickens… #HistoricalFiction
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Great to be back @BAVS_2023 #bavs2023 & thanks to @Danielle_M_Dove for warm welcome. More on #FindingMiddlemarch here: please explore great exhib by @DrRosalindWhite exploringeliot.org/discover-…
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4 Jul 2023
A must read for #FindingMiddlemarch fans!
4 Jul 2023
Today marks 30 years since filming started on Andrew Davies' adaptation of Middlemarch and our latest blog is now live!
Justin Smith of @dmuleicester writes about the project which links the novel to the BBC adaptation
Tinyurl.com/transforming-mid…
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13 Jun 2023
A fav. #FindingMiddlemarch🔎 exhibit… there is no entry for Marian Evans in the 1861/71 census. But there is a Mrs Marian E. Lewes.
For occupation George Eliot ignores the fact she's a bestselling author so that she can defiantly put ‘wife’ exploringeliot.org/FM/7
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12 Jun 2023
For a woman born in 1819, George Eliot led an extraordinarily progressive & independent life. Yet Middlemarch’s women find no such freedom. Why is this? Find out at #FindingMiddlemarch🔎 exploringeliot.org/FM/7 feat. an assortment of Eliot's writing tools...
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9 Jun 2023
The latest #FindingMiddlemarch chapter includes Edwin Long's The Babylonian Marriage Market @RHUL_Gallery. By spotlighting an ancient scene that presents women as commodities rather than as individuals, Long holds up a mirror 🪞to Victorian society... exploringeliot.org/FM/7
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7 Jun 2023
What can a persistent rumour about Eliot’s right hand tell us about what it was like to be a woman in the 19thC growing up in the provinces? Find out in the latest chapter of #FindingMiddlemarch🔎 exploringeliot.org/FM/7
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6 Jun 2023
This footstool, thought to have been embroidered 🪡 by George Eliot, exemplifies the kind of intricate needlepoint that would have served as a suitable demonstration of feminine refinement in the 19thC. exploringeliot.org/FM/7 Find out more at #FindingMiddlemarch🔎
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5 Jun 2023
This sewing 🪡 reticule of George Eliot's consists of a buttonhook, a file, a penknife & a crochet hook, all with mother-of-pearl handles.
Find out more about 19thC needlework in our latest ch. of #FindingMiddlemarch🔎 exploringeliot.org/FM/7
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2 Jun 2023
Both “textile” & “text” derive from the Latin for weaving “texare”. Explore how George Eliot’s weaving of words parallels the needlework practiced by her female characters at #FindingMiddlemarch ... feat. this beautiful box used by Eliot to store lace. exploringeliot.org/FM/7
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1 Jun 2023
Wonderful - stitching our way thru #Findingmiddlemarch
31 May 2023
This sampler was made by Mary Ann Tidye in 1813 at age 11. @The_Herbert houses an impressive collection of samplers stitched in the 19thC by girls as young as nine. As a child, George Eliot would have produced comparable work. 🪡🧵#FindingMiddlemarch🔎 exploringeliot.org/FM/7
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1 Jun 2023
In the 19thC the education of a young girl would have largely consisted of cultivating ladylike ‘accomplishments’. This little white cloak w/ a ruffled trim was executed by George Eliot & her classmates.
exploringeliot.org/FM/7 Find out more at #FindingMiddlemarch🔎
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31 May 2023
This sampler was made by Mary Ann Tidye in 1813 at age 11. @The_Herbert houses an impressive collection of samplers stitched in the 19thC by girls as young as nine. As a child, George Eliot would have produced comparable work. 🪡🧵#FindingMiddlemarch🔎 exploringeliot.org/FM/7
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30 May 2023
I don’t want #FindingMiddlemarch to end but here is the first instalment of the last chapter on women’s lives in C19th Coventry and beyond.
30 May 2023
#FindingMiddlemarch’s last chapter is now available! ✨ A window into women's lives in 19thC Coventry, from the limits of female education to the mercenary nature of the marriage market. Feat. exhibits from @The_Herbert @RHUL_Gallery & more… exploringeliot.org/FM/7
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3 May 2023
Really pleased to hear that 'Coton Lawn' by @paulsmithart has been selected for @paintbritain 'X Contemporary British Painting' @visitnca Newcastle curated by @narbiprice. From series of paintings Smith completed in our collab around #Nuneaton #FindingMiddlemarch & #GeorgeEliot
ALT An oil painting of a footpath through wheat fields in spring. A wooden footbridge across a stream is in the middle ground.
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19 Apr 2023
We'd love to hear more from any local historians from #Warwickshire #Coventry or #Allesey who may have more to add to the story... Notably, Bree served on the trustees of the Bedworth charity alongside Robert Evans (Eliot's father). #FindingMiddlemarch exploringeliot.org/FM/6
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19 Apr 2023
A 🧵 devoted to my fav. exhibit from the #FindingMiddlemarch🔎 exhibition I curated @ExploringEliot
The Bree family butterfly collection, 🦋 masterfully disguised as leather-bound volumes 📖 📚 of British Entomology (1833-42). 🪲 🐛
exploringeliot.org/FM/6
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14 Apr 2023
Did you know the parson naturalist was once a fixture of the English countryside?
Find out how scientific practice & spiritual faith overlapped in this ch. of #FindingMiddlemarch feat. exhibits illustrating the 1st wave of #Beetlemania in the 1830s. 🪲
exploringeliot.org/discover-…
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New at #FindingMiddlemarch🔎✨ explore how Eliot’s novels served as a kind of secular scripture for 19thC readers as a new religious age dawned. 📖
Feat. this beautiful painting of St Michael’s & Holy Trinity Churches ⛪️ by David Gee @The_Herbert exploringeliot.org/discover-…
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#FindingMiddlemarch traces Eliot's spiritual journey from adolescent evangelism to renouncing orthodox religion.🕊️ Exhibits inc. her music book, her statue of Christ & her trans. of Strauss ‘the most pestilential book ever vomited out of the jaws of hell'. exploringeliot.org/FM/6
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