Herbert Art Gallery & Museum Middlemarch was released in eight ‘half volumes’ over 12 months. You can see one of the four sets of bound loose leaves in a new George Eliot display in our Treasures Gallery at St Pancras from 5 November to 26 January. #ExploringEliot

#GE200 - what Eliot has to offer 200 years after her birth. Here I get to thank George Eliot (GEF) Sudden Impulse The Landmark Trust Nuneaton Library, Museum & Art Gallery for all they do. ahrc-blog.com/2019/11/21/ill…

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Onto the next #ge200 event of today Royal Society of Literature ‘what’s so great about George Eliot’

Join us to celebrate George Eliot’s 200th Birthday TODAY!! 🎂🎈😃 ✅ Special wreath laying ceremony ✅ Pop-up museum ✅ Free, guided museum exhibition tour ✅ Cake and balloons! #GeorgeEliot2019 #GE200 #ByGeorge! nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk/news/article/7…

Florence Nightingale statuette c.1863. This statuette belonged to Eliot. After she moved to London, Eliot became friends with artist & women's rights activist Barbara Bodichon and her cousin, Florence Nightingale. #ExploringEliot #GeorgeEliot

This writing desk was owned by George Eliot and probably used in the later part of her life when she was living in London. #ExploringEliot #GeorgeEliot

Eliot's first book, Scenes of Clerical Life (1857) consists of 3 short stories. One of them is located in Milby, a fictional version of #Nuneaton. Adam Bede (1859) was Eliot's first novel. The famous trial scene takes place in a room based on St Marys Guildhall (Official Site) #ExploringEliot

"...the opal was my favourite stone, because it seems to blush and turn pale as if it had a soul... [I] said that it was an emblem of the poetic nature, changing with the changing light of heaven and of women's eyes." From the Lifted Veil, by George Eliot #ExploringEliot

Exquisite edition of Silas Marner from the unique George Eliot collection at Nuneaton Library #GeorgeEliot #georgeeliot200 #ExploringEliot For more see georgeeliotprovincialism.home.blog

My favourite of the beautiful books from the unique George Eliot Collection at Nuneaton Library. Who wouldn't want to start reading Scenes of Clerical Life straight away?#georgeeliot200 #GeorgeEliot #ExploringEliot For more see georgeeliotprovincialism.home.blog

Tools of a Victorian writer’s trade: George Eliot’s blotter from the extraordinary collections at Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery.© Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery. #GeorgeEliot #georgeeliot200 #ExploringEliot For more see georgeeliotprovincialism.home.blog

What the Dickens! It’s a woman, by George! Marian Lewes outed as a talent of the highest order. George Eliot Collection, Nuneaton Library. #GeorgeEliot #GeorgeEliot200 #ExploringEliot

Call me by my name. Marian Lewes asserts the right to a name of her own. ©Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery. #GeorgeEliot #georgeeliot200 #ExploringEliot For more see georgeeliotprovincialism.home.blog

This mourning envelope from the extraordinary collections at Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery arrived at Griff two days after Eliot’s death. © Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery. #GeorgeEliot #georgeeliot200 #ExploringEliot For more see georgeeliotprovincialism.home.blog

Happy Birthday George Eliot, we made a bunch of programmes to celebrate. Start with Fiona Shaw and The Mill on the Floss bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Listen here to Dr Helen O'Neill Gail Marshall Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 & me talk about: the beauty of #Nuneaton; Englishness & provincialism; #PeakyBlinders; Bacchus & Ariadne; WritingWestMidlands @MsAnnaLawrence- #georgeeliot200 gets everywhere.

Enjoyed the first part of #Middlemarch on BBC Radio 4? Until 5 January 2020 you can visit our #ExploringEliot display and come face to face with the original Middlemarch manuscript, complete with annotations. Kindly on loan from British Library #GeorgeEliot

On Words and Music: George Eliot’s world. Her characters, her journals, the music she heard and played – with Fiona Shaw, Ellie Kendrick & Philip Bretherton bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

And can we have a lush #GeorgeEliot biopic in which Fiona Shaw plays Eliot & Phoebe Waller Bridge Edith Simcox struggling bewildered in Nuneaton after her beloved’s death & full flashbacks please?