History Creator / GeorgeEliot

She lived fairly openly with her lover George Henry Lewes, home she considered her husband though he was married to another woman (they had an open marriage). It was one factor in her using a pen name, given how scandalous at the time such a relationship was. She supported abolition of slavery, aiding the poor, feminism, Irish home rule and religious skepticism through essays in the left-wing ''Westminster Review''. She was briefly married to John Walter Cross in her last year of life.

She also wrote poetry, and (despite having rejected her faith) translated religious works including Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'' from the German. The OED references her as the first use of the words "lampshade" and "lunchtime", and is also the first recorded use of the word "pop" as in {{Pop}}. Perhaps of even more importance to tropers, she wrote ''Literature/SillyNovelsByLadyNovelists'', perhaps the first ever listing of MarySueTropes.

Oh, and her family vehemently denied [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial she had a very big right hand]].[[labelnote: Why?]]Long story short, when she was younger, in a chat with a neighbour she boasted about how much bigger and stronger her right hand was after years of churning. This neighbour told the story to her first biographer (after her death) as a humourous anecdote, and her family were so appalled at the intimation that she'd done hard manual labour they spent years demanding other biographers repudiate the story.[[/labelnote]]

George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Ann, or Marian, Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), an English novelist. She was roughly contemporary with Creator/CharlesDickens, but started writing later than he did. Her first fiction, an installment of a story later collected in ''Scenes of Clerical Life'', was published in 1857, and her first novel, ''Adam Bede'', in 1859. Her best-known novels are ''Literature/SilasMarner'' and ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}'', the latter usually being considered her masterpiece.

Oh, and her family vehemently denied [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial she had a very big right hand]].

She also wrote poetry, and (despite having rejected her faith) translated religious works including Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'' from the German. Perhaps of even more importance to tropers, she wrote ''Literature/SillyNovelsByLadyNovelists'', perhaps the first ever listing of MarySueTropes.

George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Ann, or Marian, Evans (1819–1880), an English novelist. She was roughly contemporary with Creator/CharlesDickens, but started writing later than he did. Her first fiction, an installment of a story later collected in ''Scenes of Clerical Life'', was published in 1857, and her first novel, ''Adam Bede'', in 1859. Her best-known novels are ''Literature/SilasMarner'' and ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}'', the latter usually being considered her masterpiece.

* DownerEnding: ''The Mill on the Floss''.

* ''The Mill on the Floss'' (1860)

She also wrote poetry, and (despite having rejected her faith) translated religious works including Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'' from the German. Perhaps of even more importance to tropers, she wrote ''SillyNovelsByLadyNovelists'', perhaps the first ever listing of MarySueTropes.

* ''{{Silly Novels by Lady Novelists}}''

George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Ann, or Marian, Evans (1819–1880), an English novelist. She was roughly contemporary with Creator/CharlesDickens, but started writing later than he did. Her first fiction, an installment of a story later collected in ''Scenes of Clerical Life'', was published in 1857, and her first novel, ''Adam Bede'', in 1859. Her best-known novels are ''SilasMarner'' and ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}'', the latter usually being considered her masterpiece.

* ''SilasMarner'' (1861)

* ''SilasMarner''

* ''{{Romola}}'' (1863)

* ''{{Middlemarch}}''
* ''{{Romola}}''

George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Ann, or Marian, Evans (1819–1880), an English novelist. She was roughly contemporary with Creator/CharlesDickens, but started writing later than he did. Her first fiction, an installment of a story later collected in ''Scenes of Clerical Life'', was published in 1857, and her first novel, ''Adam Bede'', in 1859. Her best-known novels are ''SilasMarner'' and ''{{Middlemarch}}'', the latter usually being considered her masterpiece.

* ''{{Middlemarch}}'' (1871–72)

* ''DanielDeronda''

* ''DanielDeronda'' (1876)

George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Ann, or Marian, Evans (1819–1880), an English novelist. She was roughly contemporary with CharlesDickens, but started writing later than he did. Her first fiction, an installment of a story later collected in ''Scenes of Clerical Life'', was published in 1857, and her first novel, ''Adam Bede'', in 1859. Her best-known novels are ''Silas Marner'' and ''Middlemarch'', the latter usually being considered her masterpiece.