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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian [1] [2]), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. [3]
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life is a book written by Clare Carlisle and published by Allen Lane in 2023. The work explores the life and philosophy of Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot .
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872.
Eliot says of Gwendolen, "It was not that she wished to damage men, it was only that she wished not to be damaged by them". [ 1 ] Gwendolen and Grandcourt have an unhappy marriage, and Gwendolen is racked by guilt when Grandcourt drowns, as she had been wishing for him to die and hesitated for a moment before trying to save him.
The marriage plot became a popular source of entertainment in the 18th and 19th centuries with the rise of the middle class novel. The foremost practitioners of the form include some of the more illustrious names in English letters, among them Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, George Eliot and the Brontë sisters.
Middlemarch is a 1994 television adaptation of the 1871 novel of the same name by George Eliot.Produced by the BBC on BBC2 in six episodes (seven episodes in the worldwide TV series), it is the second such adaptation for television of the novel.
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Dinah Morris is a major character in George Eliot's novel Adam Bede (1859); a Methodist lay preacher, she was modelled on Eliot's aunt Elizabeth Evans. Dinah visits the fictional community of Hayslope — a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. She says to Lisbeth Bede in Chapter Ten, "I work in the cotton-mill when I am at home."