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George Eliot

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born
November 22, 1819 in South Farm, Arbury, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom

died
December 22, 1880

gender
female

genre
Literature & Fiction


About this author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Mary Ann (Marian) Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity.

She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as merely a writer of romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship w...more


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Books by George Eliot

Average rating: 3.72 · 67,589 ratings · 4,831 reviews · 220 distinct works
Middlemarch: A Study of Pro...
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 26,644 ratings — published 1871 — 252 editions
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Silas Marner
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 16,148 ratings — published 1861 — 345 editions
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The Mill on the Floss
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 9,812 ratings — published 1860 — 23 editions
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Adam Bede
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 5,089 ratings — published 1859 — 148 editions
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Daniel Deronda
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 4,292 ratings — published 1876 — 102 editions
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Romola
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 1863 — 57 editions
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Felix Holt, the Radical
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1866 — 61 editions
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Scenes of Clerical Life
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1857 — 60 editions
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The Lifted Veil
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 1878 — 44 editions
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Quotes by George Eliot

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
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“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
― George Eliot
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“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― George Eliot
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