George Eliot Quotes
In every parting there is an image of death.
Eliot, George. Scenes of Clerical Life. William Blackwood and Sons, 1858.
Matteotti gave a two hour speech in the Italian Parliament denouncing the Fascists and their strong-arm tactics, political assassinations, and election rigging. Eleven days later he was assassinated.
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.
