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George Eliot was the pen name of English female novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). Born on a farm in Warwickshire, she used many of her real-life experiences in her books, which she wrote under a man's name in order to improve her chances of publication.

She defied convention by living for many years with George Henry Lewes, a writer, who died in 1878. After this she married a man twenty years younger than her, but herself died a few months later. Her works include:

  • Middlemarch (published 1871)
  • The Mill on the Floss (1860)
  • Adam Bede (1859)
  • Silas Marner (1861)
  • Daniel Deronda (1876)

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