Eliot
Eliot names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Eliot GEORGE, the pen name of MARY ANN or MARIAN EVANS
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, the pen name of MARY ANN or MARIAN EVANS, an English novelist; born near Nuneaton, Nov. 22, 1820. She received at Coventry an excellent education, and shortly after her 21st year became a convert to Rationalism. Her first literary undertaking was the completion of Mrs. Hennell's translation of Strauss' "Life of Jesus" (1846). After spending two years abroad she became subeditor of the In January, "Westminster Review." 1857, she came prominently into public notice with a series of tales entitled "Scenes from Clerical Life." In the following year the publication of "Adam Bede" placed her in the first rank of writers of fiction. It was succeeded by the "Mill on the Floss" (1860); "Silas Marner" (1861); "Romola" hola" (1863); "Felix Holt" (1866); "Middlemarch" (1872), and "Daniel Deronda" (1876). She published also three volumes of verse, "The Spanish Gypsy" (1868); "Agatha" (1869), and the "Legend of Jubal" (1874). Her last work published during GEORGE ELIOT her life was "The Impressions of Theophrastus Such" (1879), but a volume of mixed essays was issued posthumously. For many years she was happily associated in life and work with George Henry Lewes, though a legal union was impossible during the lifetime of Mrs. Lewes. In May, 1880, after Mr. Lewes' death, she married Mr. John Cross, but did not survive the marriage many months, dying rather suddenly at Chelsea on Dec. 22 of that year.
Eliot JOHN, "the Indian Apostle"
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, "the Indian Apostle"; born probably at Widford in Hertfordshire, in 1604. He graduated at Cambridge in 1622, and, after taking orders in the Church of England, emigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1631. In 1646, after two years' study of the language, he delivered a long sermon in the native dialect at Nonantum; other meetings soon followed. He shortly after began to establish his converts in regular settlements, his work meeting with approval both in the colony and at home; in England a corporation was founded in 1649 "for the promoting and propagating the Gospel among the Indians of New England." In 1674 the number of "praying Indians" was estimated at 3,600; but the decay of the "praying towns" was rapid after the war with a native king, Philip (1675), in which the converts suffered equal cruelties at the hands of their countrymen and of the English. With Thomas Weld and Richard Mather, Eliot prepared the "Bay Psalm-book" (1640), the first book printed in New England. His great work was the translation of the Bible into the tongue of the Indians of Massachusetts (Algon (Algonquin) (1661- 1663). He died in Roxbury, Mass., May 21, 1690. There are monuments to his memory in the Indian burying ground at South Natick and at Newton.
Eliot SAMUEL, an American educator and historian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SAMUEL, an American educator and historian; born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 22, 1821. He filled the chair of history and political science in Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. (1856-1864); was president of Trinity College (1860- 1864); and overseer of Harvard (1866- 1872). Among his publications are: "The History of Liberty" (1853); "The Liberty of Rome" (1849); "Life and Times of Savonarola" (1856); "Manual of United States History Between the Years 1492 and 1850" (revised ed., 1873); and "Stories from the Arabian Nights" (1879). He died in Beverly, Mass., Sept. 14, 1898.
Eliot CHARLES ican educator and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES ican educator and author; born in Boston, WILLIAM, Amer- Mass., March 20, 1834; president of Harvard University (1869-1909). President DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT Emeritus since 1909. He is the author of "Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis"; "Manual of Inorganic Chemistry"; "John Gilley" (1904); "The Happy Life" (1905); "The Road Towards Peace." He edited "The Harvard Classics," better known as the "Five- Foot-Shelf Library." (Collier, New York, 1910).
Eliot George. See Cross
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
George. See Cross ; Mrs. Mary Ann Evans
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 lists four Eliots and misses the one most readers would now look for: T. S. Eliot, who was drafting "The Waste Land" that very year and who published it in 1922. Charles W. Eliot, described as still living and "President Emeritus," died at Northeast Harbor, Maine, on 22 August 1926, aged 92; his Harvard Classics survive mainly as a set of unread spines. George Eliot's standing has risen rather than fallen "Middlemarch" is now routinely named among the greatest English novels, and in 1980, the centenary of her death, she was given a memorial stone in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, an honour long denied her because of her unmarried years with Lewes. John Eliot's 1663 Bible, presented here as a curiosity of missionary zeal, became a working tool in the 1990s for the Wampanoag language reclamation project, which used his translation to bring Wopanaak back into spoken use, while his "praying towns" are now discussed alongside the internment of their inhabitants on Deer Island during King Philip's War.
Written for this edition, 2026.