'It's never too late to achieve'

 

“It’snever too late to be who you might have been.” –George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans saidthat if she was going to be taken seriously as a novelist she needed to changeher identity.  So, she became – George Eliot.  As George, this English journalist andtranslator became the novelist she longed to be, ultimately regarded as oneof the best of the 19th Century.
Born on this date in 1819, she authored 7 novels –including the terrific Mill on the Flossand Silas Marner – known for theirrealism and psychological insights.
Women did write under their own namesduring her lifetime, but she said she used a male pen name to escape the stereotypeof women only writing lighthearted romances.  And she wished to have herfiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. 
 [image error]  A self-taught writer, in 1850 she became the first female writer hired by The Westminster Review.   By the time she started writing novels in 1858 shewas pretty much running the prestigious magazine.  Despite the acclaim she earned as a journalist, she wanted to write creatively and in a style rarelytaken by women.   Thus, George Eliot was born.     Alwaysanxious to achieve, she noted: “Theimportant work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfectmen.”