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Middlemarch Author Biography

Nationality 1: English

Birthdate: 1819

Deathdate: 1880

George Eliot was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans (later Marian Evans and in the last year of her life Marian Cross), who was born on November 22, 1819, in Arbury, Warwickshire, the daughter of Robert Evans, an estate manager. Her excellent education was first shaped by Christian teachings and then by her conversion to Evangelicalism. In her schooling at Coventry, Evans lost her provincial accent and learned to speak English perfectly in a well-modulated voice. She learned French and German and was adept at playing the piano. Influenced by the German school of thought called Higher Criticism, she came in her twenties to regard sacred texts as historical documents rather than divinely revealed truth. Though she stopped going to church, she remained committed to the values of duty and love, and her writings, which are didactic, provide many positive...
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