Mary Anne Evans - 22 November 1819–22 December 1880. English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Under her pen name, George Elliot, she is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
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