- Born: 22 November 1819
- Died: 22 December 1880
- Birthplace: Warwickshire, England
- Best known as:
The author of Middlemarch
4 good links
- The George Eliot Fellowship
Great place to start: links to bios, texts, and related topics
- The Victorian Web: George Eliot
More good links, though several seem out of date
- George Eliot Biography
Nice, meaty biography; emphasis on her personal life
- George Eliot by Leslie Stephen
An entire biography of her online in HTML
George Eliot Biography
Name at birth: Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans
George Eliot was the masculine pen name of the writer Mary Ann Evans, one of Victorian England's leading novelists. Her first stories appeared in Blackwood's magazine, and were followed by novels including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1862). Her work was popular with critics and the public alike, and in later years her novels were especially valued for their detailed portrayals of rural English life.
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