George Eliot

George Eliot is the name taken by Mary Ann Evans, born in 1819, the daughter of an estate manager in Warwickshire. She translated Strauss and Feuerbach, effectively edited the Westminster Review, and took a man's name so that her novels would be judged on their own merits. Her life with the critic George Henry Lewes earned her years of exclusion from polite society and cut her off from her family, her brother ceasing to speak to her until she married. At sixty she married a man twenty years her junior and died seven months later.

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• NovelMiddlemarchGeorge Eliot · 1871LiteraturePublic domain