Cross, Mary Ann, (1819-1880), novelist and poet

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Alternative name(s):	Mary Anne Evans (Maiden Name) Mary Ann Evans (Also known as) George Eliot (Pseudonym) Marian Evans Lewes (Also known as) Marian Evans (Also known as)
Surname:	Cross
Forenames:	Mary Ann
Gender:	Female
Date:	1819-1880
Places:	Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Biography:	ODNB link for Cross, Mary Ann (1819-1880) nee Evans, Novelist called George Eliot
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P131488 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P7058 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Mary Ann Cross

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	literary MSS	See information in published source		See Index of English literary MSS vol 4 1800-1900
2	1834-1981: corresp (c1000 items), journals, literary ms, diaries	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	GEN MSS 963	See Guide 1974
3	MS of ten literary works	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add.MSS.34020-43	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
4	c1861: notebook for Romola	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 40768
5	1862-64: notebook	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Don g 8
6	1879: diary	New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Division	Berg collection	See JS Batts, British MS diaries of the 19th century, 1976
7	1872-80: papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 54338
8	notebook, music exercise book and letters to Mrs Cash	Nuneaton Library and Information Centre		See Library Association survey 1965
9	1843-73: misc letters	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 61891
10	collection rel to her	Coventry Archives		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
11	letters received	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
12	1878: letters received rel to death of GH Lewes	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections	MS 394	See Mynors, Catalogue of MSS
13	1842-80: corresp with Blackwoods	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 4123-4802 passim
14	1852-54: corresp with George Combe	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 7325-7392 Passim
15	1867-79: letters to Lady Dilke	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 43907
16	1859-79: letters (14) to J Langford, mainly about her books	Unknown location	D	NRA 2592 Hicks
17	1871-76: letters from Alexander Main	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS 942
18	1852-80: letters (59 copies) mainly to Bessie Rayner Parkes	Cambridge University: Girton College Library and Archive	GCPP Parkes	NRA 31319
19	1867-79: letters (26) mainly to Jane Senior	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 75298	See Independent on Sunday 20/5/01; Sotheby's 19/12/00 lot 48; Annual Return 2001
20	1872-80: letters (11) to Henry Sidgwick	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	Add Ms c.93/111-121	NRA 34807
21	letters to Herbert Spencer	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 65530
22	1872-80: letters to Elma Stuart	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 37952
23	1877-80: letters to James Sully	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	MS ADD 158	NRA 14257 Sully
24	1853-79: letters (16)	Huntington Library		See Guide to literary MSS 1979
25	1850-1915: correspondence between George Eliot and her family and friends	Warwickshire County Record Office	CR3989	See Annual Return 2005
26	c1868: draft ms essay 'Notes on the Spanish Gypsy and Tragedy in General'	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89340	See Annual Return 2018
27	1873: letter, written as Mrs Lewes, from Red Hill, to Hugh Atkins of Hinckley, with a contribution towards a memorial tablet for a former teacher	Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for	DE10022	See Annual Return 2020

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Lewes, George Henry, (1817-1878), author	Partner		Associative