English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
Mary Ann Evans wrote as George Eliot because Victorian England wouldn't have taken a woman's psychological realism seriously—and she lived openly with a married man for twenty-four years while producing seven novels that redrew what fiction could do.
Born Mary Ann Evans on 22 November 1819 in provincial England, she worked as a journalist and translator before taking the pen name George Eliot and publishing Adam Bede in 1859. The novels that followed—The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda—set the bar for realism and psychological depth, most of them rooted in the countryside she knew. From 1854 to 1878 she lived with George Henry Lewes, who stayed legally married to Agnes Jervis and supported her children by another man; Eliot called Lewes her husband anyway. Middlemarch, published in 1871–1872…
Sourced, dated quotes from George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
Tis God gives skill, But not without men's hands: He could not makeAntonio Stradivari's violinsWithout Antonio.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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