Last modified:4th February, 2002
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The George Eliot Fellowship
The George Eliot Fellowship exists to honour George Eliot and to promote interest in her life and works. Its objects are to gather together admirers of the novelist and to encourage the collection of books, manuscripts, letters, portraits and other articles associated with her for public display as well as to observe her birthday ech year.
The Fellowship's annual programme includes a programme of Readings from her novels, essays and letters, wreathlaying ceremonies in the George Eliot Memorial Garden, Nuneaton and in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, a George Eliot Memorial Lecture and a Birthday Luncheon in November on the Sunday nearest to her birthday. Other events which vary from year to year are also included.