Novelist. Born Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire. Pen name of Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans. Spent her first 21 years on a farm, now (2015) the Griff House Beefeater Grill restaurant on the Coventry Road, Nuneaton. She used a male pseudonym to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Works include: ‘Adam Bede’, ‘The Mill on the Floss’, ‘Silas Marner’, Middlemarch'. Died Chelsea.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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George Eliot
LivingInMagazines gives "In September 1855 the Leweses moved to new lodgings ...
She lived at this address with George Henry Lewes from early 1859 until late ...
Eliot moved here in December 1880 with her new husband, John Cross, and died ...
Writer. Born Edinburgh. Extremely popular in his lifetime, worldwide. Novels include: Waverley and Ivanhoe. Poems: Lady of the Lake. Died Abbotsford, south of Edinburgh, his home since 1812. ...
French novelist, playwright, journalist. Born Paris but when he was three the family moved to Aix-en-Provence where he was brought up and where he became friends with Paul Cézanne . When he was 18 ...
Born Tavistock, Devon. Née Rundle, married Andrew Charles. Wrote and translated hymns. Author of "Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family". Died Hampstead. In addition to her Wikipedia page and o...
Nurse, journalist, broadcaster, novelist and 'agony aunt'. Born Claire Berenice Chetwynd in London. Her early life was marred by the cruelty of her parents who put her in a psychiatric hospital wh...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, TV & Radio, Canada
Actor, director, writer. Born Streatham.
