George Eliot Quotes


How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.


Citations

Eliot, George. Romola. Vol. 2, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863, p. 234.

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George Eliot
George Eliot
  • Born: November 22, 1819
  • Died: December 22, 1880
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Novelist, Poet, Journalist, Translator

Mary Ann Evans, 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 (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England and most of her works are set there. They are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.