She died on 22 December 1880 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery in north London. The popularity of Eliot's novels brought social acceptance, and Lewes and Eliot's home became a meeting place for writers and intellectuals.Īfter Lewes' death Eliot married a friend, John Cross, who was 20 years her junior. Her other novels include 'The Mill on the Floss' (1860), 'Silas Marner' (1861), 'Romola' (1863), 'Middlemarch' (1872) and 'Daniel Deronda' (1876). She used a male pen name to ensure her works were taken seriously in an era when female authors were usually associated with romantic novels. Her first novel, 'Adam Bede', followed in 1859 and was a great success. In 1856, she began 'Scenes of Clerical Life', stories about the people of her native Warwickshire, which were published in 'Blackwood's Magazine'. Lewes was married and their relationship caused a scandal.

She was now at the centre of a literary circle through which she met George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived until his death in 1878. In 1850, Eliot began contributing to the 'Westminster Review', a leading journal for philosophical radicals, and later became its editor. Eliot then travelled in Europe, eventually settling in London. In 1841, she moved with her father to Coventry and lived with him until his death in 1849. When her mother died in 1836, Eliot left school to help run her father's household. George Eliot was born on 22 November 1819 in rural Warwickshire. As they pursue separate journeys of self-discovery, culminating in Daniel’s discovery of his Jewish. Searching for his life’s purpose, young Daniel Deronda is immediately attracted to the beautiful but shallow Gwendolen Harleth during a chance meeting at a casino. Her novels, most famously 'Middlemarch', are celebrated for their realism and psychological insights. from 100.00 2 Used from 210.87 1 Collectible from 100.00. © George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading English novelists of the 19th century.

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