George Eliot Quotes


Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.


Citations

Eliot, George. Adam Bede. William Blackwood and Sons, 1859.

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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.