George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively
Mary Anne or
Marian), known by her
pen name George Eliot, was an English
novelist,
poet,
journalist,
translator, and one of the leading writers of the
Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: ''
Adam Bede'' (1859), ''
The Mill on the Floss'' (1860), ''
Silas Marner'' (1861), ''
Romola'' (1862–63), ''
Felix Holt, the Radical'' (1866), ''
Middlemarch'' (1871–72) and ''
Daniel Deronda'' (1876). Like
Charles Dickens and
Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their
realism,
psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
''Middlemarch'' was described by the novelist
Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by
Martin Amis and
Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
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