George eliot biography pdf download

BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE ELIOT George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading English novelists of the 19th century.

Her novels, most famously 'Middlemarch', are celebrated for their realism and psychological insights. George Eliot was born on 22 November in rural Warwickshire.

George eliot biography pdf download

When her mother died in , Eliot left school to help run her father's household. In , she moved with her father to Coventry and lived with him until his death in Eliot then travelled in Europe, eventually settling in London. In , Eliot began contributing to the 'Westminster Review', a leading journal for philosophical radicals, and later became its editor.

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 Lewes was married and their relationship caused a scandal. Eliot was shunned by friends and family.

Eliot did not publish any novels for some years after Felix