https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv made by dana minakov, lia sznajder and omer toledano en-us 2020-09-22 17:27:48 UTC 2020-09-22 18:02:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png s191234 https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769264184 2020-09-22 17:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769264184 s191234 https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769266297 2. When she was five years old, she and her sister were sent to boarding school at Attleborough, Warwickshire, and when she was nine she was transferred to a boarding school at nuneaton.]]> 2020-09-22 17:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769266297 s191234 https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769274346 4. In 1851 Evans became an editor of the Westminster Review, a sensible and open-minded journal.]]> 2020-09-22 17:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769274346 s191234 https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769281894 5. In 1857 she published a short story, "Amos Barton," and took the pen name "George Eliot" in order to prevent the discrimination.]]> 2020-09-22 17:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769281894 s191234 https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769347861 7. Eliot also translated foreign works like David Friedrich Strauss's Das Leben Jesu (The Life of Jesus) and The Essence of Christianity by German philosopher Ludwig into English. Upon reading her translation, one English nobleman called it "the most pestilential book ever vomited out of the jaws of hell". ]]> 2020-09-22 17:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769347861 s191234 https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769381455 6. Mary Ann Evans adopted the pen name George Eliot as a tribute to George Lewes. The name 'Eliot' was a code for "to L - I owe it".]]> 2020-09-22 17:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769381455 s191234 https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769389181 8.  The Oxford English Dictionary credits George Eliot with coining the term pop to refer to popular music. In November 1862, Eliot wrote in a birthday letter to a friend, "We have been to a Monday Pop. this week to hear Beethoven's Septet, and an amazing thing of Bach's played by the amazing Joachim. But there is too much 'Pop.' for the thorough enjoyment of the chamber music they give".]]> 2020-09-22 17:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769389181 s191234 https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769402828 9. George Eliot fell ill with a throat infection. She was already suffering with kidney disease and she died on 22nd December 1880. She was sixty one years old. She is buried at Highgate Cemetery in London, next to George Lewes.]]> 2020-09-22 17:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769402828 s191234 https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769405834 10. Griff House, where Eliot lived as an infant until her early twenties, still exists, but it's now home to a steakhouse and hotel. Called the Griff House Beefeater & Nuneaton Premier Travel Inn, the spot also features a pond, gardens, and a play area for kids. ]]> 2020-09-22 17:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769405834 s191234 https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769412591 3. When Mary Ann Evans moved to London to start her writing career, after her father's death, she called herself Marian Evans.]]> 2020-09-22 17:56:17 UTC https://padlet.com/s191234/kv3bycfrpgs46csv/wish/769412591