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Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her friendship with religious freethinkers led to a break with orthodox religion. When one of these friends married in 1843, Mary Ann took over from his wife the task of translating D.F. Strauss's The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (1846), a work that had deep effect on English rationalism. After her father's death she settled in London and from 1851 to 1854 she served as a writer and editor of the Westminster Review, the organ of the Radical party. In London she met she met George Henry Lewes, a journalist and advanced thinker. Lewes was separated from his wife, who had had two sons by another man, but had been unable to obtain a divorce. In a step daring for Victorian times, Mary Ann Evans began living openly with Lewes in 1854, in a union they both considered as sacred as a legal marriage and one that lasted until his death in 1878.

With Lewes's encouragement, Mary Ann Evans wrote her first fictional work, "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton," for Blackwood's Magazine in 1857; it was followed by two more stories published under the pseudonym George Elliot-"George" because it was Lewes's name and "Eliot" because, she said, it was good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word." At the age of thirty-nine she used her memories of Warwickshire to write her first long novel, Adam Bede (1859), a book that established her as the foremost woman novelist in her day. Then came The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Romola (1863). Her masterpiece and one of the greatest English novels, Middlemarch, was published in 1871-72. Her last work was Daniel Deronda (1876). After Lewes's death George Eliot married John Walter Cross. He was forty; she was sixty-one. Before her death on December 22, 1880, she had been recognized by her contemporaries as the greatest living writer of English fiction.

Romola I By George Eliot
Romola Iby George Eliot
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The Essays of George Eliot By George Eliot
The Essays of George Eliotby George Eliot
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The Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
The Mill on the Flossby George Eliot
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Silas Marner By George Eliot
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Middlemarch By George Eliot
Middlemarchby George Eliot
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Middlemarch By George Eliot
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Silas Marner By George Eliot
Silas Marnerby George Eliot
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Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
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Middlemarch By George Eliot
Middlemarchby George Eliot
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The Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
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Daniel Deronda By George Eliot
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Felix Holt, the Radical. By George Eliot
Felix Holt, the Radical.by George Eliot
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Novels of George Eliot Vol I Adam Bede By George Eliot
Novels of George Eliot Vol I Adam Bedeby George Eliot
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Silas Marner By George Eliot
Silas Marnerby George Eliot
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Silas Marner By George Eliot
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Middlemarch By George Eliot
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Romola By George Eliot
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Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
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Silas Marner By George Eliot
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The Spanish Gypsy By George Eliot
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Silas Marner By George Eliot
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Silas Marner By George Eliot
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Daniel Deronda - Vol. I By George Eliot
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The Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
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Middlemarch, Volume III By George Eliot
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Middlemarch By George Eliot
Middlemarchby George Eliot
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The Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
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Felix Holt, The Radical By George Eliot
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Adam Bede By George Eliot
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Scenes of Clerical Life By George Eliot
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The Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
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George Eliot's Silas Marner By George Eliot
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Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
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The Essays Of George Eliot, Complete By George Eliot
The Essays Of George Eliot, Completeby George Eliot
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Adam Bede, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) By George Eliot
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The Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
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The Spanish Gypsy By George Eliot
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