Victorian
George Eliot
1819–1880
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), born in Warwickshire, who came to London in 1851 as assistant editor of the Westminster Review and lived, from 1854, with the writer George Henry Lewes. Scenes of Clerical Life (1857) was followed by Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). She also translated Strauss and Feuerbach.
Sources: Bibliomancer editorial note, written from standard reference facts (dates, places, principal works).
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Books by George Eliot
Same era