George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), English novelist, poet and critic, 1877. Artist: Laura Theresa Epps Alma-Tadema

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George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), English novelist, poet and critic, 1877. She chose a male nom de plume in order to improve her chances of publication and became a novelist of great stature. She was the author of Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, amongst others.

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