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Johnny Dunn and Victoria Cook Dunn and Cook 1 Karen Chase ENG 322 13th April 2009 Annotated Bibliography //For our project about George Elliot, we are interested in finding out the all the intimate details about her journey and struggle as a woman writer. To do so, we will research and review many different biographies and sources dedicated to George Elliot. We are specifically interested in researching the controversies in her life because she was one of the most influential female writers but she had to hide her gender through a masculine pseudonym in order to fit in. We would like to further investigate exactly how much success she had with her works. We believe that George Elliot was morally and ethically correct when she purposely mislead and lied about herself in order to be seen as more than a romance writer, which was the norm for women at the time.//

"George Eliot." __Answers.com - Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and much more__. Answers Corporation. 13 Apr. 2009 . The authors, contributors, and researchers at the Answers Corporation use information gathered from several books, notably //George Eliot: Biography// from Oxford University, and published letters and works of George Elliot to create a concise biography about George Elliot. The biography covers why and how Mary Ann Evans adopted the masculine pen name George Elliot. It also covers basic facts about her early life, her numerous works, especially her novels, which are discussed and analyzed in great detail.

"George Eliot: Biography." __University of Virginia Library__. University of Virginia. 13 Apr. 2009 . The authors of this article wrote go into great depth about George Elliot’s personal life in a biography, contrasting the Answers.com biography which wrote mostly about her published works. The biography covers Elliot’s early life and years including her family and education. It goes into greater detail about her personal life through the discussion of her friendships and other relationships with various peers, her first published articles and jobs, her romantic relations and marriage, her transformation into her male persona, and finally her death.

Merriman, C. D. "George Elliot." __The Literature Network__. Jalic Inc. 13 Apr. 2009 . C.D. Merriman discusses the life of George Elliot in a detailed biography that mainly focuses on the controversies and uncertainties in her life. The author includes an excerpt of one of Elliot’s novels that epitomize Elliot’s writing style and tone. The biography covers topics of aspects of her early life like education and family, then to very personal character aspects like her religion and beliefs. The biography goes into noticeable detail about her family, especially her parents. The author also connects and parallels Elliot's novels with Elliot's own life.

Haight, Gordon S. __Geroge Elliot: Biography__. Oxford, 1968. I[|SBN 0-19-811666-7]. The author Gordon S. Haight discusses in novel detail the life of George Elliot and focuses on how Elliot empowered women everywhere and gained creative independence as a woman. All aspects of Elliot's life are discussed from her birth to her death. Haight has an intimate knowledge of Elliot’s life and gives exclusive information that was not found in other sources, such as Elliot’s contacts in the writing world. The author goes scrutinizes details about Elliot’s journey and focuses on the troubles Elliot came across as a writer.