George Eliot

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
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George Eliot pseud. of Mary Ann or Marian Evans, 1819-80, English novelist, b. Arbury, Warwickshire. One of the great English novelists, she was reared in a strict atmosphere of evangelical Protestantism but eventually rebelled and renounced organized religion totally. Her early schooling was supplemented by assiduous reading, and the study of languages led to her first literary work, Life of Jesus (1846), a translation from the German of D. F. Strauss . After her father's death she became subeditor (1851) of the Westminster Review, contributed articles, and came to know many ...

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