Literary Lady: A GeorgeEliot Quiz

Question 1 of 10:

The world will always know her as George Eliot , but what was this great British novelist's real name?

Judith Murray

Mary Anne Evans

Anna Stevenson

Clarissa Joan Smith

Though she would later question her faith, the young Eliot was an enthusiastic convert to which brand of Protestantism?

Fundamentalism

Tractarianism

Adventism

Evangelicalism

Eliot once scandalised polite Victorian society for her unashamed relationship with a married man.

True

False

Eliot 's analytical writing style was greatly inspired by the ideas of which famous philosopher?

Auguste Comte

John Locke

GWF Hegel

Friedrich Nietzsche

Eliot was heaped with acclaim for her first novel, the story of a lovelorn carpenter in the Midlands. What is it called?

Daniel Deronda

Adam Bede

Silas Marner

Felix Holt

The most peculiar of Eliot 's novels is ‘Romola’. Set in Renaissance Italy, it tells the true story of...?

An art patron

A religious reformer

An innovative sculptor

A liberal politician

Though her reputation rests on her novels, Eliot was also a poet. Her major work in this field is a verse drama called...?

The French Soldier

The Greek Sailor

The Spanish Gypsy

The Russian Peasant

Eliot was one of the founding members of the English Suffragette Movement.

True

False

Eliot 's greatest novel is ‘Middlemarch’. Which literary heroine did this vast book give to the world?

Becky Sharp

Molly Bloom

Dorothea Brooke

Hester Prynne

Eliot finally married in 1880, the year of her death. Who did this greatest of writers choose as her husband?

A painter

A composer

An opera singer

A banker