George Eliot Quotes
I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.
He was defying the Italian Federal Laws and the position of the Vatican with respect to gay marriage. The 16 couples were wed abroad as gay marriage was then illegal in Italy. However, he officially recognized the marriages, something which the conservatives in the Federal government had been able to avoid then. The photo is the mayor congratulating one of the couples he registered.
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.