In 2020 the coronavirus pandemic meant that the 51^st selection of readings was cancelled but Gabriel and Rosalind, determined to help the Fellowship celebrate its 90^th anniversary, recorded and gave to us these recordings. Anonymous donors then paid for the production costs of the CD and podcast, and postage, so that you can be sure that every penny you pay will go towards creating the George Eliot Visitor Centre in the grounds of Griff House where George Eliot spent the first 21 years of her life.

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Gabriel Woolf has supported the George Eliot Fellowship every year since 1969 when he performed a special selection of readings for the 150^th anniversary of George Eliot’s birth.

He then did a selection of Eliot reading every year until 2019, usually to help the Fellowship build up some funds for its work. The 2019 selection was a repeat of the 1969 selection, except that the readings are now shared with Rosalind Shanks. Between them they make a formidable presentation and they have done readings all over the world.

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