name: George Eliot
birth_date: 1819-11-22 00:00:00
death_date: 1880-12-22 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Journalism, Literature & Fiction
influences: Jane Austen, Charles Dick, Gottfried Keller, Auguste Comte, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Sand, Ludwig Feuerbach, Arthur Schopenhauer, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Miguel de Cervantes, Herbert Spencer, Honoré de Balzac, Walter Scott, David Strauss
avg_rating: 3.88
ratings_count: 402323
about: Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like  Charles Dickens and  Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.Middlemarch was described by the novelist  Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by  Martin Amis and  Julian Barnes as t Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like  Charles Dickens and  Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.Middlemarch was described by the novelist  Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by  Martin Amis and  Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language. ...more