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1819 – 1880 · Nuneaton
George Eliot
How Mary Ann Evans borrowed a man's name and wrote the greatest novel in English.
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George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, born in 1819 in rural Warwickshire, England. She was a sharp and bookish child. Her father made sure she was well educated, which was unusual for a girl at the time. As a young woman she lost her Christian faith after reading widely, and she began translating serious German philosophy into English. That work sharpened her mind for big questions about how people should live.
Books on the Atlas
- Middlemarch 1871 to 1872
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