George Eliot Works

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880), 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 is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871 - 72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years. Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language. This application contains the following works: Adam Bede, Brother Jacob, Daniel Deronda, Felix Holt, The Radical, George Eliot's Life, Vol. III (of 3) / as related in her Letters and Journals, George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) / as related in her Letters and Journals, George Eliot's Life, Vol. I (of 3) / as related in her Letters and Journals, How Lisa Loved the King, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Middlemarch, Romola, Scenes of Clerical Life, Silas Marner, The Essays of "George Eliot" / Complete, The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the Floss and Tom and Maggie Tulliver.