Eliot, George

Eliot, George
(1819-1880)
   George Eliot, the pseudonym of Mary Ann or Marian Cross (formerly, Evans)-said to be one of the greatest novelists in England's history-was born in Warwickshire. Her father was overseer to Arbury Hall, the Newdigate family's seven thousand acre estate. Religious as a child, she underwent a crisis of faith, accelerated by her translation in 1846 of Life of Jesus, by Dr. David Friedrich Strauss (1835), in which he questioned the divinity of Jesus. After her father died in 1849, she became assistant editor for the London Westminster Review. She became a social outcast and was cut off by her family for living with George Henry Lewes (who was already married and remained so). Lewes encouraged Eliot to write and her first of many novels, Adam Bede, was published in 1859. She ceased writing when Lewes died in 1878. She married John Walter Cross, her financial adviser, in 1880, and died seven months later. She also wrote short stories and poems. Some of her poems: "Armgart," "Brother and Sister," "Roses," "Stradivarius," "The Choir Invisible," "The Death of Moses," "The Legend of Jubal," "The Spanish Gypsy," "Two Lovers."
   Sources: Collected Poems of George Eliot. Lucien Jenkins, ed. Skoob Books Publication Ltd., 1989. Dictionary of National Biography. Electronic Edition 1.1. Oxford University Press, 1997. Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite DVD, 2006. The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. 11th ed. The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, Columbia University Press, 2005 (http://www.columbiagrangers.org). The National Portrait Gallery (www.npg.org.uk). The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 6th edition. Margaret Drabble, ed. Oxford University Press, 2000. Westminster Abbey Official Guide (no date).

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