George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, among them Adam Bede of 1859, The Mill on the Floss of 1860, Silas Marner of 1861 and Middlemarch. Born in 1819 and dying in 1880. Her later novels include Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical and Daniel Deronda. Her novels are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside, and Virginia Woolf described Middlemarch as one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.