Person    | Female  Born 22/11/1819  Died 22/12/1880

George Eliot

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 - Richmond

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George Eliot - SW18

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George Eliot - SW3

Eliot moved here in December 1880 with her new husband, John Cross, and died ...

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