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Nonfiction by George Eliot (link)

The most complete collection of George Eliot’s nonfiction is curated by the George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, . It includes all the essays published in earlier collections, including Charles L. Lewes's Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book (London & Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons, 1883), Thomas Pinney's Essays of George Eliot (Columbia UP, 1963), Pinney’s “More Leaves from GE’s Notebook” (Huntington Library Quarterly, 29.1966, 353-76), Holstrom & Lerner's George Eliot and Her Readers (1966) and Karen Pangallo's The Critical Response to George Eliot (1994). Also included are Eliot-authored essays identified in the William Baker & John C. Ross’s George Eliot: A Bibliographical History (Oak Knoll Press, 2002), in addition to the Wellesley Index and the Curran Index of Periodicals.
Eliot’s most famous essay, “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,” was first published anonymously in the October, 1856 issue of the Westminster Review, just as she was beginning her own career as a serious fiction writer. Other frequently studied essays by George Eliot include “Evangelical Teachings: Dr. Cumming,” “The Natural History of German Life,” and “Worldliness and Other Worldliness: The Poet Young” in which she expresses philosophic principles that underpin her later works of fiction. All these essays and more than seventy additional reviews and articles may be read in their entirety and freely downloaded here.

Poetry by George Eliot (link)

The complete collection of George Eliot’s poetry edited by Beverley Park Rilett for the George Eliot Archive includes all original publications of her works, including her earliest published poem, “Knowing that Shortly I Must Put Off this Tabernacle,” published in the 1840 edition of The Christian Observer. Here you will find all the individual poems published during her lifetime, including The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem (Cabinet Edition, Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1878 (originally 1868) and How Lisa Loved the King. Fields, Osgood, 1869. The full text of the Cabinet edition of The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems (Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons, 1878 (originally 1874) is also available here.
The long poems The Spanish Gypsy and How Lisa Loved the King were published originally in individual volumes. Shorter poems were previously available only in Bernard Paris’s “GE’s Unpublished Poetry,” Studies in Philology, 56 1959, 539-58. In 2005, The Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot, edited by Antonie Gerard van den Broek and William Baker (London & New York: Routledge), made these shorter poems available to scholars, but they were not collected in their public domain forms until this collection published them in 2019. The best book of criticism on George Eliot’s poetry is Wendy S. Williams’s George Eliot, Poetess (London & New York: Routledge, 2016).