George Eliot biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of George Eliot

Author Name:

George Eliot

Born As:

Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans

Other Names:

Born:

22 Nov 1819

Died:

22 Dec 1880




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Novelist                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

Adam Bede - 1859
The Mill on the Floss - 1860
Silas Marner - 1861
Romola - 1863
Felix Holt, the Radical - 1866
Middlemarch - 1871–72
Daniel Deronda - 1876

Poetry:

The Spanish Gypsy - a dramatic poem - 1868
Agatha - 1869
Armgart - 1871
Stradivarius - 1873
The Legend of Jubal - 1874
Arion - 1874
A Minor Prophet - 1874
A College Breakfast Party - 1879
The Death of Moses - 1879
From a London Drawing Room,
Count That Day Lost, ?
I Grant You Ample Leave

Other works:

Translation of "The Life of Jesus Critically Examined" by David Strauss - 1846
Translation of "The Essence of Christianity" by Ludwig Feuerbach - 1854
Scenes of Clerical Life - 1858
The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton
Mr Gilfil's Love Story
Janet's Repentance
The Lifted Veil - 1859
Brother Jacob - 1864
Impressions of Theophrastus Such - 1879                          
Mother  Christiana Pearson
Father Robert Evans, four children, Mary Ann being the third child.                          
                          
Mary Ann or Marian used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as merely a writer of romances.