George Eliot (English writer and poet)
- Mary Anne Evans
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- Eliot, George
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- Gender
- Female
- Date of birth
- 1819-11-22
- Place of birth
- Nuneaton
- Date of death
- 1880-12-22
- Place of death
- Chelsea
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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). As with Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
Scandalously and unconventionally for the era, she lived with the married George Henry Lewes as his conjugal partner, from 1854 to 1878, and called him her husband. He remained married to his wife and supported their children, even after she left him to live with another man and have children with him. In May 1880, eighteen months after Lewes's death, George Eliot married her long-time friend, John Cross, a man much younger than she, and she changed her name to Mary Ann Cross.
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English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
Last modified: 2023-04-02 (revision #133498)
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Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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Middlemarch | eBook | ? | 2019-11-25 |
Middlemarch | eBook | ? | 1994-07-01 |
Silas Marner | eBook | ? | 2017-10-10 |
Daniel Deronda | eBook | ? | 2021-04-12 |
Silas Marner (Wordsworth Classics) | Paperback | 1853262218 | 1994 |
The Mill on the Floss | eBook | ? | 2020-02-10 |
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