Scenes of Clerical Life

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Scenes of Clerical Life is a collection of three interlinked short stories by George Eliot that portray the moral and social lives of rural English clergymen and their communities.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
short story collection
work of fiction
author George Eliot
George Eliot
surface form: Mary Ann Evans
bookPublicationYear 1858
containsWork Janet's Repentance
Mr Gilfil's Love-Story
The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReception highly praised by contemporary critics
firstPublicationForm serial
firstPublishedIn Blackwood's Magazine
followedBy Adam Bede
genre realist fiction
short stories
hasAdaptation radio adaptations
television adaptations
hasCharacterType Anglican clergymen
rural parishioners
hasIllustrations no (in original edition)
hasSubject Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism in England

clergy
provincial life
includedIn George Eliot
surface form: George Eliot canon
influenced development of English realist fiction
language English
literaryForm interlinked stories
literaryMovement Victorian literature
mainTheme marriage and domestic life
moral life of clergymen
religion and morality
social life of rural communities
social reform
medium print
narrativeStyle third-person narration
notableFor first published work of George Eliot
numberOfStories 3
originallyPublishedUnderPseudonym George Eliot
placeOfPublication Edinburgh
London, England
surface form: London
publicationYear 1857
publisher Blackwood and Sons
setting rural England
settingPeriod early 19th century
targetAudience adult readers

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George Eliot notableWork Scenes of Clerical Life