
Wallington’s School at Nuneaton (1828–32), where she came under the influence of Maria Lewis, the principal governess, who inculcated a strong evangelical piety in the young girl. Early yearsĮvans was born on an estate of her father’s employer. Her major works include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876). George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann, or Marian, Cross, née Evans, (born November 22, 1819, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England-died December 22, 1880, London), English Victorian novelist who developed the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction. In 1880, several months before her death, she married a banker named John Walter Cross. They were unable to get married because English law at the time prevented Lewes from getting a divorce.
George Eliot lived with George Henry Lewes, a journalist who encouraged her career, from 1851 until his death in 1878.
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