George Eliot
George Eliot will be the name remembered for the great works of Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Adam Bede, but who was this thought provoking author? Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, in Warwickshire, England. At the age of nine, she began boarding at Mrs. Wallington’s School at Nuneaton, where she developed an evangelical piety. At her next school, she learned to read French and Italian. When her mother died, she left school to help her father. She continued her studies, and took lessons in German and Latin. When the two of them moved to Coventry, Mary Ann befriended religious freethinkers, which led her to leave orthodox religion.
When one of her friends married, Evans was left with the job …show more content…
Lewes and Evans decided to live together as a married couple, and in July, 1854, they went to Germany. Lewes persuaded Evans to write fictional works, and became a major inspiration to her. Her first piece was published as The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton. Wanting to be taken seriously in that Victorian age, she chose the male pseudonym “George Eliot”. After this she wrote Mr. Gilfil’s Love-Story and Janet’s Repentance. All three were republished as Scenes of Clerical Life, 2 vol. (1858). A year later she published Adam Bede, her first novel, full of memories from her childhood.
In 1878 Lewes died, and Evans longed for his support, which fueled her writing. She founded the George Henry Lewes Studentship in Physiology at Cambridge in remembrance of him. Evans developed a close friendship with her banker John Walter Cross. Their friendship became intimate and in 1880 they were married, her at the age of sixty-one, him forty. About eight months later, on December 22, 1880, she died. Mary Ann Evans will always be remembered as George Eliot, the brilliant author of Middlemarch, Silas Marner, and many
George Eliot will be the name remembered for the great works of Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Adam Bede, but who was this thought provoking author? Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, in Warwickshire, England. At the age of nine, she began boarding at Mrs. Wallington’s School at Nuneaton, where she developed an evangelical piety. At her next school, she learned to read French and Italian. When her mother died, she left school to help her father. She continued her studies, and took lessons in German and Latin. When the two of them moved to Coventry, Mary Ann befriended religious freethinkers, which led her to leave orthodox religion.
When one of her friends married, Evans was left with the job …show more content…
Lewes and Evans decided to live together as a married couple, and in July, 1854, they went to Germany. Lewes persuaded Evans to write fictional works, and became a major inspiration to her. Her first piece was published as The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton. Wanting to be taken seriously in that Victorian age, she chose the male pseudonym “George Eliot”. After this she wrote Mr. Gilfil’s Love-Story and Janet’s Repentance. All three were republished as Scenes of Clerical Life, 2 vol. (1858). A year later she published Adam Bede, her first novel, full of memories from her childhood.
In 1878 Lewes died, and Evans longed for his support, which fueled her writing. She founded the George Henry Lewes Studentship in Physiology at Cambridge in remembrance of him. Evans developed a close friendship with her banker John Walter Cross. Their friendship became intimate and in 1880 they were married, her at the age of sixty-one, him forty. About eight months later, on December 22, 1880, she died. Mary Ann Evans will always be remembered as George Eliot, the brilliant author of Middlemarch, Silas Marner, and many