Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: This author wrote a novel whose title character saves Mordecai's sister from drowning, encounters the gambling Gwendolen Harleth, and searches for the family of Mirah Lapidoth. Another of this author's novels sees one character abandon her baby while searching for its father, Captain Donnithorne. One of this author's novels sees a character courted by Phillip Wakem and Stephen Guest named Maggie Tulliver. Another work by this author of Daniel Deronda and Adam Bede sees Reverend Causabon die, leaving his widow Dorothea Brooke to marry Will Ladislaw. For 10 points, name this author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch.
A:
Literature