The George Eliot Fellowship
* This is a reproduction of the leaflet about "The George Eliot Fellowship" made by permission of Mrs. Kathleen Adams. Anyone interested in membership information should contact her. She can then provide current information or can tell people in the United States to send their checks to Linda K. Robertson.
The George Eliot Fellowship exists to
honour George Eliot and to promote interest in her life
and works. Its objects are to gather together admirers of
the novelist and to encourage the collection of books,
manuscripts, letters, portraits and other articles associated
with her for public display as well as to observe her birthday each year.
The Fellowship's annual programme includes a
programme of Readings from George Eliot's novels, essays
and letters, wreath-laying ceremonies in the George Eliot
Memorial Gardens, Nuneaton and in Poets' Corner,
Westminster Abbey, a George Eliot Memorial Lecture and
a Birthday Luncheon in November on the Sunday nearest
to her birthday. Other events which vary from year to
year are also included.
The George Eliot Fellowship was founded in Nuneaton
in 1930 and has a membership of approximately 600 in
20 different countries. Ordinary and life membership is
open to individuals. Ordinary membership is open to
corporate bodies such as libraries, schools and universities.
In 1980, to mark the centenary of George Eliot's death,
the Fellowship, together with George Eliot admirers all
over the world, placed a memorial stone in Poets' Corner,
Westminster Abbey. In 1986, as a result of a public appeal,
they were responsible for the erection of a bronze statue
of George Eliot by the Warwickshire sculptor, John Letts,
in the centre of her native Nuneaton. The statue was
unveiled by the President of the George Eliot Fellowship,
Jonathan Ouvry, who is the great, great grandson of George
Henry Lewes with whom George Eliot lived for twenty
four years, and without whose loving encouragement there
would probably have been no George Eliot.
The patron of the Fellowship is the Right Hon. the Viscount
Daventry, of Arbury Hall near Nuneaton. The Newdegate
family have lived at Arbury Hall for over 400 years and it
was at Arbury, while Robert Evans was employed as Agent
for the Arbury Estate, that Mary Ann Evans, later to
become world famous as George Eliot, was born. The
George Eliot Fellowship takes great pleasure in this
continued association with Arbury through the Patronage
of Lord Daventry.
The George Eliot Fellowship Publications
(In conjunction with Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council)
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George Eliot Country
£1.50
by Kathleen Adams
George Eliot: A Brief Biography
£1.50
by Kathleen Adams
The Little Sister
(A life of George Eliot written for older children)
by Kathleen Adams
Those Of Us Who Loved Her
(The story of the men in George Eliot's Life)
by Kathleen Adams
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The Fellowship has also produced:
2 sixty minute cassettes of Gabriel Woolf
reading favourite scenes from George Eliot
£5.00 each
A leather bookmark bearing the word
Nuneaton and showing views of Griff
House, South Farm and the George Eliot
Statue. Assorted colours
75p
Coloured postcards of a portrait of George
Eliot from a modern painting, and of the
George Eliot Statue.
15p
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Send no money for any of the above.
An invoice will be sent with the goods to include
postage and packing.
The George Eliot Fellowship also issues a quarterly
newsletter and an annual magazine, 'The George Eliot
Review'. Both are issued free to members
The George Eliot Fellowship
Patron: The Rt. Hon. the Viscount Daventry
President: Jonathan G. Ouvry
Vice Presidents:
- A.S. Byatt, C.B.E.
- Tenniel Evans
- Beryl Gray B.A. PhD
- Graham Handley M.A. PhD
- Professor Barbara Hardy MA(Lond)
Hon. D. Univ (Open)
- F. B. Pinion M.A. Litt D
- Mrs. Ann Reader
- Mrs. Harriet Williams (USA)
- Michael Wolff M.A. PhD (USA)
- Miss Margaret Wolfit
- Gabriel Woolf
Chairman: A.E Adams
Vice Chairman: Mrs. Joan Bunn
Hon. Secretary: Mrs. Kathleen Adams Hon. M.A.
Hon. Treasurer: John Bunn
Editors, The George Eliot Review:
- Dr. Beryl Gray
- Dr. John Rignall
All enquiries about the Fellowship, its activities, the
availability of speakers or guided tours of the George Eliot
Country to the Hon. Secretary:
- Mrs. Kathleen Adams,
- 71 Stepping Stones Road,
- Coventry, Warwickshire, CV5 8JT.
- Tel. (01203) 592231
- The Fellowship is affiliated to The Alliance of Literary Societies
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