2019 marks the Bicentenary of the birth of Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot, in Nuneaton, England, on 22nd November, 1819.
She is regarded as one of the world’s greatest novelists.
This site will promote all events being held to celebrate this remarkable woman and her literary achievements, locally, nationally and internationally.
Schedule of Events
22 March 2019
George Eliot Fellowship Reading Group
We are looking forward to sharing together our responses to 'The Mill on the Floss', the story of Maggie Tulliver growing up with her brother Tom. Although set in the Gainsborough area, the emotional heart of this novel is surely Griff, Nuneaton. Discussion led by Viv Wood.
27 June 2019
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss is presented by Leeds Arts Centre, a leading community theatre group producing high quality, imaginative theatre for over 40 years. This production has worked with Donald Edwards, Artistic Director of Ruff Cut Dance Theatre and founder member of Phoenix Dance Company, Leeds.
Ongoing
The Virtual George Eliot tour of Weimar
Wherever you are in 2019, welcome to Weimar in 1854. Accompany Marian Evans, aka George Eliot, and George Henry Lewes during their stay in the then capital of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (later Thuringia), three exciting, well documented months so crucial for Eliot‘s personal life, and her future career as a novelist.
7 September 2019
Folk Music Concert at Astley Castle Open Weekend
George Eliot Fellowship is delighted to be able to welcome you to this one off performance inside the beautiful castle at Astley, courtesy of Landmark Trust. Locally renowned artists will be performing a selection music, some of which will reflect the times of George Eliot.
17 May 2019
Queen Victoria’s contemporaries: born in 1819
This workshop collaborates with Glasgow Museums Resource Centre to investigate how generational identities – particularly that of the 1819 cohort – might look different when we view them through the lens of the material culture they generated and left behind.
Sudden Impulse Theatre Company
About Sudden Impulse
Sudden Impulse are an award winning theatre company from George Eliot’s North Warwickshire home town of Nuneaton. They collaborated with the George Eliot Fellowship in 2016 bringing Viv Wood’s adaptation of 'Felix Holt: The Radical' to life, a production they took to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the same year.
Mr Gilfil's Love Story
'Gilfil' is set at Arbury Hall. We are grateful to Lord and Lady Daventry for allowing Sudden Impulse Theatre company to perform it in the grounds of their beautiful home. Come early, bring a picnic and settle down to a gripping evening's entertainment.
Rehearsed Readings
Mill on the Floss, Felix Holt, Adam Bede.
Throughout the summer months Sudden Impulse will be bringing rehearsed readings of these George Eliot classics to audiences free of charge in some very special locations throughout North Warwickshire. Keep an eye on our website, visit us on Facebook, or why not follow us on Twitter.
