Exploring Eliot

A project exploring the fantastic George Eliot collections at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, Nuneaton Library and Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

#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… https://t.co/dImll2Dfez

[CLiC fiction @CLiC_fiction]

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. ✍️📖 https://t.co/ZJDxEBNhuq #HistoricalFiction

[Ruth Livesey @LiveseyRuth]

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 https://t.co/KamEeS3XEO

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

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
https://t.co/qvCHxzO8KJ

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

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🔎 https://t.co/pHX8BZ4KR9 feat. an assortment of Eliot's writing tools...

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

#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… https://t.co/dImll2Dfez

[Rosie White @DrRosalindWhite]

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’ https://t.co/77cRwxPfVm

[Sarah Barnette @DrSarahBarnette]

Totally fab, I mean, look at that blotting paper!

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

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🔎 https://t.co/pHX8BZ4KR9 feat. an assortment of Eliot's writing tools...

[Rosie White @DrRosalindWhite]

My favourite detail… the young girl making uncomfortable eye contact with the viewer.

[Rosie White @DrRosalindWhite]

Also of note, the word lace is derived from the Latin for noose & is related to the term lacere, meaning to entice or ensnare. A fitting accessory for Rosamond - whose feverish weaving is indicative of the dextrous manner she manipulates her own fate, esp in her relations w/ men.

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

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... https://t.co/pHX8BZ4KR9

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

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. https://t.co/dImll2Dfez Find out more at #FindingMiddlemarch🔎

[Ruth Livesey @LiveseyRuth]

Such a fascinating story of social mobility & status anxiety - did George Eliot make cheese or not?!

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

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🔎 https://t.co/dImll2Dfez

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

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. https://t.co/dImll2Dfez Find out more at #FindingMiddlemarch🔎

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

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🔎 https://t.co/pHX8BZ4KR9

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

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🔎 https://t.co/dImll2Dfez

[Ruth Livesey @LiveseyRuth]

Wonderful - stitching our way thru #Findingmiddlemarch

[HeritageCultureWarks @OisinTheDeer]

I’ve learnt something! And it’s still early. Thank you @ExploringEliot.

[Exploring Eliot @ExploringEliot]

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. https://t.co/dImll2Dfez