George Eliot

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, a renowned English novelist, poet, and journalist. She was born on November 22, 1819, in Warwickshire, England, to a family of farmers. Her father was a land agent, and her mother was a devout Christian. Mary Ann was the youngest of five children, and she was educated at home by her father and older siblings. In her early twenties, Mary Ann moved to London to work as a translator and editor for the Westminster Review, a prominent literary journal. She soon became known for her sharp intellect and insightful critiques of contemporary literature and politics. In 1856, she published her first novel, Scenes of Clerical Life, under the pseudonym George Eliot. The book was a critical and commercial success, and it established Eliot as one of the leading writers of her time. Over the next two decades, Eliot wrote several more novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1871-72). Her novels were known for thei