biography
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Eliot, George
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pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans or Marian Evans
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| female
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| lived:
| (1819–80)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born at Arbury Farm, Astley, Warwickshire, C England, UK. She took charge of the family household when her mother died (1836), and was educated in private schools and by tutors. After the death of her father (1849) she travelled in Europe, then settled in London, and began to write for the Westminster Review. She became assistant editor, and the centre of a literary circle, one of whose members was G H Lewes, with whom she lived until his death. Her first story appeared in 1857. Her major novels were Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–2), and Daniel Deronda (1876). After Lewes's death, she married an old friend, John Cross, in 1880, but died soon after. |
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