George Eliot

Birth: 1819-11-22 , Nuneaton

Death: 1880-12-22 , Londres

George Eliot is the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, a prominent English novelist of the Victorian era. Eliot is celebrated for her profound psychological insight, moral complexity, and realistic portrayal of English provincial life. Her works often explore themes of morality, religion, determinism, and the position of women in society.

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A woman’s hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them.

Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight—that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life—the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it—can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

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Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), writing under the pseudonym George Eliot, was one of the most influential literary figures of the 19th century. Born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, she challenged the social conventions of her time by pursuing a literary career, which was unusual for women. Her relationship with the philosopher George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived without marrying, was also considered scandalous. Eliot is known for novels such as "Middlemarch", "The Mill on the Floss", and "Silas Marner". Her works are notable for their psychological introspection, exploration of moral and social dilemmas, and rich, scholarly prose. "Middlemarch" is often cited as one of the greatest English-language novels, admired for its broad cast of characters and its depiction of life in an English provincial town. Eliot died in London in 1880 at the age of 60.