he George Eliot Archive, launched in December 2018, is a long-awaited online resource for scholars of George Eliot. The site provides free online access to all of Eliot's writings: the standard "Cabinet Edition" of the novels and short stories, her complete poetry, her translations, and her non-fiction essays (a more complete compilation than any printed collection). Visitors also will find hundreds of searchable and downloadable documents pertaining to the author, including reviews of her works by her contemporaries; early biographical studies by those who knew her personally; and all known portraits of the author.
The next phase of the project, coming May 2019, will offer three new interactive tools to present biographical information about Eliot, including a sortable, searchable chronology detailing the events of her life; an interactive map that will help scholars visualize the sites and art Eliot visited on her trips to Italy; and a visual relationship web that will display her ties to family, friends, and business associates and will link to brief summaries of over 150 relationships. In its third phase of construction, the George Eliot Archive aims to provide images and searchable transcriptions for all of the author’s journals and correspondence.
The George Eliot Review Online
The Archive’s sister site, the George Eliot Review Online, makes all issues of the George Eliot Review from its inception in 1970 freely accessible on the internet for the first time. This digital project, launched from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in December 2017, has been made possible in partnership with the journal’s publishers, the George Eliot Fellowship.
Last modified 3 January 2019