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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]
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Daniel Deronda is a novel written by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published in eight parts (books) February to September 1876. [1] It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the Victorian society of her day.
Scenes of Clerical Life is George Eliot's first published work of fiction, is an 1858 collection of three short stories, published in book form; it was the first of her works to be released under her famous pseudonym. [1]
He was the author of George Eliot: A Biography and the editor of The George Eliot Letters. "[Haight] was completely absorbed in the life and work of George Eliot and had the distinction, before he died, of being asked to speak at the dedication of her memorial in Westminster Abbey, an extraordinary recognition for an American, as I am sure you ...
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Adam Bede was the first novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published in 1859.It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.
The issue was compounded because Eliot's most recent novel, Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) – also set in the same pre-Reform Bill England – had not sold well. [11] The publisher John Blackwood , who had made a loss on acquiring the English rights to that novel, [ 10 ] was approached by Lewes in his role as Eliot's literary agent.