George Eliot
English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819-1880) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 61
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Something wrong?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.
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Portrait of George Eliot by Samuel Laurence, c. 1860
Photograph (albumen print) of George Eliot, c. 1865
Blue plaque, Holly Lodge, 31 Wimbledon Park Road, London
Eliot's grave in Highgate Cemetery
Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery, in Riversley Park, home of collection on writer George Eliot
Portrait by Frederick William Burton, 1864In their own words 10
, 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 make / Antonio Stradivari's violins / Without Antonio.
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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, would later be called the greatest novel in the English language. Eighteen months after Lewes died, she married John Cross, a younger friend, and died that same year on 22 December 1880.
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