Category: Classics

Lifespan: (November 22, 1819 –December 22, 1880)

Interesting & Unique Facts: Eliot was really the pen name of Mary Ann (Marian) Evans. She claims to have used a male pen name so that her works would be taken seriously.

She had an affair with a married man named George Henry Lewes. In Victorian England, it was not uncommon for a married man to have a mistress. What was unique in Lewes case was that he and his wife, Agnes Jervis, had agreed to have an open marriage.

Author's work in order (with publication dates):

• Adam Bede (1859)
• The Mill on the Floss (1860)
• Silas Marner (1861)
• Romola (1863)
• Felix Holt, The Radical (1866)
• Middlemarch (1871-72)
• Daniel Deronda (1876)

Poetry
Poems by George Eliot include:

• The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
  
• Agatha (1869)
• Armgart (1871)
• Stradivarius (1873)
• The Legend of Jubal (1874)
• Arion (1874)
• A Minor Prophet (1874)
• A College Breakfast Party (1879)
• The Death of Moses (1879)
• From a London Drawing Room
• Count That Day Lost?
• I Grant You Ample Leave