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George Eliot

Also known as Mary Ann Evans, Marian Evans, Mary Anne Evans Cross, Mary Anne Cross, Marian Cross

English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)

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George Eliot was a person born on 22 November 1819 and died on 22 December 1880. She is associated with the pseudonym George Eliot. Her works include Adam Bede, Felix Holt, the radical, The writings of George Eliot, Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe, and Middlemarch.

She is linked to tags including audiobook, spoken word, english, female, and romantic. Similar artists include Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Wilkie Collins, Henry James, and Mark Twain. She has 575 listeners and a playcount of 11139 on Last.fm.

Her quote states, "If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally." She is referenced by 928 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 22 November 1819
Died: 22 December 1880
Works: 1789

Top works

Adam Bede
Felix Holt, the radical
The writings of George Eliot
Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe
Middlemarch

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 575
Total plays: 11,148

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”
“If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.”
“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
“Apropos of the "The Lifted Veil," I think it will not be judicious to reprint it at present. I care for the idea which it embodies, and which justifies its painfulness. A motto which I wrote on it yesterday perhaps is a sufficient indication of that idea: —”
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”

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Works in European collections

27 objects attributed to George Eliot, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

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 (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England, where most of her works are set. Her novels 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.

Scandalously and unconventionally for the era, she lived with the married George Henry Lewes as his conjugal partner, from 1854 to 1878, and called him her husband. He remained married to his wife, Agnes Jervis, and supported their children, even after Jervis left him to live with another man and have children with him. In May 1880, 18 months after Lewes's death, Eliot married her longtime friend John Cross, a man much younger than she, and changed her name to Mary Ann Cross.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “George Eliot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

George Eliot