Image of George Eliot in window of Nuneaton Library
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Image of George Eliot in window of Nuneaton Library
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 23 May 2018
The image derives from a photograph of Eliot taken by the photographer John Mayall in 1858, when she was in her late thirties. She didn't like it, later telling her publisher that 'I have rather a horror of photography. Mayall took one a couple of years ago [...] but it is not thoroughly satisfactory.' https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw189744 The library opened in 1962. The architect was Frederick Gibberd, who replanned much of central Nuneaton. https://www.gibberd.com/projects/nuneaton-library
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Image Location
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52.521876
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-1.464225