George Eliot Quotes


I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.


Citations

Eliot, George. George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Edited by J. W. Cross, William Blackwood and Sons, 1885.

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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.