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Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot - 1984
Having been aware, for some time, that I was about to undergo what I thought would be an ordeal, but which I realise may even turn out to be an enjoyable experience, I have been looking out for ways and means of getting through my allotted time…
Tags: Jonathan Ouvry, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot - 1979
I have been thinking about George Eliot’s education; this has something to do with my having a son at present at the University of Warwick, and university being a place I never got to. George Eliot and George Henry Lewes started serious study only…
Tags: Gabriel Woolf, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2013
First of all may I say what an enormous honour it is to be asked to speak on this very special occasion. When John asked me in January what I was doing on 24 November, I was obviously not quick enough to think of a reason to duck out of…
Tags: Sheila Woolf, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2009
2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of two works of fiction by George Eliot. As no one here could fail to know, throughout the year there have been all kinds of celebrations of her first - and wonderful- novel, Adam Bede (and the word…
Tags: Beryl Gray, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2008
I have attended several birthday luncheons over the years and I am very pleased and honoured to have been invited this year to propose the toast. The fact that this is a birthday celebration has prompted me to wonder how George Eliot herself was wont…
Tags: John Rignall, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2007
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am extremely grateful to you for inviting me here today to give this speech on George Eliot's Birthday. It is a real pleasure and very flattering: I hope I can live up to expectations. If you had told me a year ago that I…
Tags: Roger Simmonds, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2006
I was surprised, honoured and delighted by the invitation to join you today and propose the toast to the immortal memory of George Eliot. I am no George Eliot expert, or indeed scholar, although I am an enthusiast. She is, after all, Warwickshire's…
Tags: Adrian Litvinoff, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2005
I always used to be an admirer of Charles Lamb until I read recently his view of bluestockings or intellectual women writers: 'If she belonged to me I would lock her up and feed her on bread and water, till she left off writing poetry. A female poet,…
Tags: Michael Harris, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2005
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a special year because it is 150 years since George Eliot and G. H. Lewes began to live together openly. 22 November 1854 was her thirty-fifth birthday. Where were she and Lewes? What were they doing? They were in…
Tags: Rosemary Ashton, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2003
Foreword: I have written the following speech after I delivered it - long after. Much thought went into the preparation. However I did not want to read at the lunch, I wanted to talk. I spoke with only skeletal notes and a script of 'The Female…
Tags: Rosalind Shanks, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2002
In November 2002, 'my' adaptation of Daniel Deronda finally reached the screen, on BBC1. The production had been anticipated for years, and many people must have wondered what made it take so long. Middlemarch, in 1994, had been a great labour of…
Tags: Andrew Davies, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2002
I would like to thank you for inviting Jane and me to the wreath-laying and to this luncheon and the opportunity to propose the toast to the immortal memory of George Eliot. It is over a year ago that I was walking through the corridors of Leeds…
Tags: Edward Pogmore, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 1999
It is a tremendous honour to be talking to you today. When I first started work on my biogra-phy of George Eliot back in 1993 I never imagined that I would one day be celebrating her birthday with the people to whom her life and work mean so much,…
Tags: Kathryn Hughes, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 1998
Sixty-two years ago, almost to the day - a freezing 25 November 1936 - I arrived at the London docks from Africa and came, without realizing it at the time, to live in the country of my background. I was to live with Alison and Rupert Winser and…
Tags: Tenniel Evans, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 1997
I'm sure you all know more about George Eliot than I do, so I thought I'd talk for a few min-utes about the difficulties and joys of adapting her work, and especially Adam Bede for the stage. I'd been asked to adapt Adam Bede for the Orange Tree…
Tags: Geoffrey Beevers, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 1996
A friendly neighbour, who knew I was fond of ‘old things’, recently offered to let me look at a yellowing, crisply fragile newspaper that was in her possession. Unfolded, the crumbling broadsheet proved to be a copy of the Daily Mail for Wednesday,…
Tags: Beryl Gray, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 1991
Moving house - that worrying, complicated, exciting experience we've all had! - And moving house in November too - not an inspiring month for new beginnings! But it was just that upheaval of moving house, and just at this time of year, that Marian…
Tags: Gina Quant, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 1989
Our invitation to Gabriel Woolf to propose the Toast on this annual occasion was given so that we could say thank you to him for 20 years of work on our behalf in promoting George Eliot in his own unique way. In proposing the Toast he began by…
Tags: Gabriel Woolf, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 1988
In May 1869 George Eliot received what she described as "a really noble letter from the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe full of admiration of Silas Marner The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede" and although they never met, there seems to have…
Tags: Margaret Wolfit, Toast
George Eliot and Friendship: The Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot
Before going on to my chosen subject I thought you might like to hear a little about this new biography of George Eliot. You could indeed be forgiven for saying, 'Not another biography of George Eliot'. A new study must come out most years, either in…
Tags: Ina Taylor, Toast
A Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot: 1983
I am sure that when the recent Centenary plans were afoot, it must have seemed most unfair that George Eliot should have died on December 22nd. What a disobliging time to diet No wonder the time for celebration in Westminster Abbey was altered to…
Tags: Ruth Harris, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 2000
Now I am in my thirty-second year as Secretary of the Fellowship, Bill and I can look back over those years and realize what an immense change they have made to our lives. When we joined the tiny Fellowship in 1965 we could have had no idea what was…
Tags: Kathleen Adams, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 1986
In 1838, at the age of 18, Mary Ann Evans was deep in her evangelical period, taking everything very, very seriously. On a visit to London with her brother Isaac she refused to accompany him to the theatre, preferring instead to stay home and read…
Tags: Kathleen Adams, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 1985
In proposing this toast I thought I would like to look briefly at George Eliot’s real children, and before anyone, sensing an even bigger mid-Victorian scandal than she created by living with George Henry Lewes, asks ‘Did she have any?’, let me…
Tags: Graham Handley, Toast
Toast to the Immortal Memory of George Eliot, 1981
Though I am greatly honoured, I was not a little alarmed to be asked to get on my feet and propose this toast. Some frighteningly eminent people have been here before me. What on earth was I to say? However, our Secretary is not just a pretty face,…
Tags: Tenniel Evans, Toast
