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.
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George Eliot
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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 ...
Born Calcutta, India. Artist and writer. His father was a civil servant in In...
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