George Eliot Quotes
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
Topics
Simplicity, Simplification
Thinking
Youth
Beauty
Fashion
Aesthetics
Femininity
Modesty
Physical Appearance
Understatement
Attractiveness
Looks
Natural Beauty
Looking Good
Beauty Standards
Casual Style
Effortless Charm
Female Beauty
Plain Clothing
Unadorned Beauty
Understated Elegance
Simple Dress
Citations
Eliot, George. Adam Bede. William Blackwood and Sons, 1859.
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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.