George Eliot
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George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), an English novelist born on an estate in Warwickshire, where her father was the land agent. As a young woman she lost her evangelical faith, and she made her name in London as a translator of German theology and as the working editor of the Westminster Review. From 1854 she lived openly with the writer George Henry Lewes, who was married and unable to divorce, a choice that cut her off from much of respectable society. She began writing fiction under a male pseudonym with Scenes of Clerical Life (1858), followed by Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. Her novels combine close observation of ordinary lives with a broad moral and intellectual range. After Lewes’s death she married John Cross in 1880, and died the same year.
