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George Eliot
AuthorBooks · Second hand1819-1880
Mary Ann Evans, 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). Her novels 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.
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About George Eliot
Birth
1819
Death
1880
First book
1859
Years writing
167
Mary Ann Evans, 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). Her novels 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.
George Eliot was the male pseudonym adopted by Mary Ann Evans to ensure her literary works were taken seriously.
She is widely recognized as one of the leading and most influential writers of the Victorian era in England.
Her novels are celebrated for their profound realism and exceptional insight into the psychology of her characters.
Most of her narrative work is set in provincial England, masterfully capturing the essence of daily life.
Beyond her fiction, she maintained a prolific career as a translator, philosopher, journalist, and editor.
