George Eliot

Writer
Date Of Birth:
22 November 1819
Date Of Death:
22 December 1880
natural causes
Place Of Birth:
Warwickshire, England
Best Known As:
The author of Middlemarch

Name at birth: Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans

George Eliot was the masculine pen name of the writer Mary Ann Evans, one of Victorian England's leading novelists. Her first stories appeared in Blackwood's magazine, and were followed by novels including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1862). Her work was popular with critics and the public alike, and in later years her novels were especially valued for their detailed portrayals of rural English life.

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