[Warwickshire County, England]: Griff House, childhood home of George Eliot – Historic Print
![[Warwickshire County, England]: Griff House, childhood home of George Eliot, 1885 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8d/8dd97ba74a57-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique engraving of [Warwickshire County, England]: Griff House, childhood home of George Eliot brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Warwickshire County, England]: Griff House, childhood home of George Eliot
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Griff House stood on the Arbury estate near Nuneaton in Warwickshire, and it was where Mary Ann Evans, later known as George Eliot, spent much of her childhood. Her father managed the estate's land, and the family lived there from her infancy until they moved to Coventry in the early 1840s. This engraving was printed in the July 1885 issue of *The Century Magazine*. The Warwickshire countryside she knew as a girl later shaped the settings of novels such as *Adam Bede*.
| Created / published | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Century Magazine, 1885 July, v. 30, no. 3, p. 345. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; BI; Literature. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,221 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141509 |
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