Mary Eliot Research Paper

Mary Ann Evans also known by her pen name George Eliot was a woman of so much character. She made a way to get to where she was during the time. With struggling with the deaths of her mother and father within years apart from each other , she turned to writing (Dickinson 1). Mary Ann Evans also known as George Eliot was born on November 22, 1819. She was born in Chilvers Coton , Warwickshire , England to her mother Christina Pearson and father Robert Evans (Dickinson 1). Eliot's father was a Land agent to a wealthy family but , Eliot's mother did not do anything but be a stay at home mother (Stade 1). Eliot was the second born out of four children (Eliot 7). She had a brother named Isaac , a sister named Christiana also known as Chrissy …show more content…
One artist was the famous Francois D’Albert Durade. He painted Eliot's picture soon as he became her lifelong friend (Dickinson 811). In 1850, Eliot returned to Coventry where she was asked to help write and edit John Chapman's Westminster Review , which was the leading progressive at the time in London (Dickinson 811). Chapman was the official editor of The Westminster Review , but Eliot did most of the work to produce the journal. She did many essays and reviews dealing with the January 1852 issue until the first half of the 1854 issue (George 7). In 1851, Eliot became the editor of The Westminster Review. The westminster review was a rational reformist journal which was very popular during the time (George 1). At the time women writers were common but Evans was quite unusual. She wasn't considered attractive or beautiful according to Henry James (George 7). George Eliot wrote serious and thoughtfully than what people expected out of a lady novelists (stade 1). Eliot's full length novel of Adam Bede , was built on two pairs of Characters. One character was male and another was a female ( Wester 1016). As her career developed , Eliot's characters became complex. Her characters served the readers as examples and as warnings (Hester