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George Eliot
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22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880
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George Eliot (real name - Mary Ann Evans) was born on November 22, 1819 in the estate of Arbury (Warwickshire), in the family of a manager. In 1841, the Evansom family moved to Foleshill. In 1846, she made her literary debut - she anonymously published a translation of "The Lives of Jesus" by D. F. Strauss. In 1849, after the death of her father, she became an assistant editor at Westminster Review; from 1851 she lived in London. After a series of translations of philosophical works, she turned
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George Eliot (real name - Mary Ann Evans) was born on November 22, 1819 in the estate of Arbury (Warwickshire), in the family of a manager. In 1841, the Evansom family moved to Foleshill. In 1846, she made her literary debut - she anonymously published a translation of "The Lives of Jesus" by D. F. Strauss. In 1849, after the death of her father, she became an assistant editor at Westminster Review; from 1851 she lived in London. After a series of translations of philosophical works, she turned to artistic prose, releasing in 1857 under the pseudonym George Eliot a cycle of stories “Scenes from clerical life”. Great popularity acquired published in 1859 novel "Adam Bead", describing England at the end of the XVIII century. Among other famous works of the writer are the novels “The Mill on Flosse” (1860), “Syles Marner” (1861), “Romola” (1863) “Felix Holt, Radical” (1866), “Daniel Deronda” (1876). Eliot’s masterpiece is the novel Middlemarch (published in parts in 1871-1872). After the death of her common-law husband J.G. Lewis in 1878, George Eliot devoted herself to preparing his manuscripts for publication. She died in London on December 22, 1880.