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George Eliot death in 1880....



Item # 585731

December 24, 1880

CLEVELAND WEEKLY HERALD, Ohio, December 24, 1880

* Novelist George Eliot death
* Victorian era


This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page:

"GEORGE ELIOT"
"The Great Novalist Quietly Passes Away"
"Her Death Caused by a Chill Taken on Sunday Last"


1st report coverage on the death of famous English novelist, George Eliot.

Other news and advertisements of the day. A little spine wear, otherwise good condition.


wikipedia notes: Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.

Category: Post-Civil War