{"id":4777,"date":"2021-07-21T09:10:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T08:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2021-07-21T09:10:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T08:10:23","slug":"cannock-and-district-soroptimists-meet-george-eliot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2021\/07\/21\/cannock-and-district-soroptimists-meet-george-eliot\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannock and District Soroptimists meet George Eliot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year SI Cannock and District hold a Summer Celebration with members, family and friends. Until last year of course \u2013 when because of Covid-19, no-one was able to meet in such circumstances. So this year was even more of a celebration when, in line with guidelines, 30 members and family were able to meet and enjoy each others\u2019 company and a meal together. And this at the splendid Tutbury Castle, where the sun shone to help things along even more.<\/p>\n<p>SI Cannock &amp; District President Jackie Prince said how thrilled she was to welcome everyone to the first formal occasion the club had been able to hold since February 2020 \u2013 17 months ago!! The conversation and the smiles didn\u2019t stop: everyone was so excited to be able to go out and to meet again.<\/p>\n<p>And the afternoon was completed by a visit from the curator of Tutbury Castle, Lesley Smith, who never fails to educate and entertain. This was no exception. She appeared as George Eliot, the pen name used by Mary Ann Evans, born in 1819, author of Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss and other novels. Mary Ann Evans was a Midlander by birth and a woman ahead of her time. The audience learned that she was highly intelligent, a freethinker \u2013 but unfortunately not with the most attractive looks, in fact, many called her ugly. The most surprising thing everyone learned about this Victorian woman was that her private life was scandalous, living with a married man for 24 years and being shunned by her family and society as a result but even so she was the most successful self-made woman in the Empire. When she and Henry James Lewis fell in love and lived together she called herself Marianne Lewis. The story broke that she was living with a married man with children \u2013 and her book sales trebled! In character as George Eliot, Lesley Smith said \u201cI am an ugly duckling; I rose to be a literary swan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Soroptimist Janis Lomas, an author herself, gave the vote of thanks to Lesley, telling her that everyone had indeed enjoyed finding out more about the character she had just brought to life for them. Many members are determined to read George Eliot\u2019s novels again \u2013 with renewed interest!<\/p>\n<p>Further details about Cannock Soroptimists are available on the club\u2019s website: www.sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district, their Facebook page www.facebook.com\/SICannock; or on twitter: @sicannock<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2021\/07\/Tutbury-Pres-Jackie-Lesley-George-1-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4778\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2021\/07\/Tutbury-Pres-Jackie-Lesley-George-1-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2021\/07\/Tutbury-Pres-Jackie-Lesley-George-1-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2021\/07\/Tutbury-Pres-Jackie-Lesley-George-1-1.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos attached: Jackie Prince, President SI Cannock &amp; District with Lesley Smith as George Eliot<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s information: For further information please contact Trish Mellor 07971 597406 or Jackie Prince 07813 003236<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year SI Cannock and District hold a Summer Celebration with members, family and friends&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cannock and District Soroptimists meet George Eliot | News | Blog | Events | SI Cannock and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cannock and District : Blog &amp; News : Cannock and District Soroptimists meet George Eliot : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cannock and District . 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