George Eliot

George Eliot (1819–1880) was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the greatest intellectuals of the Victorian era. She was a woman of immense learning who translated theology and philosophy before turning to fiction. She lived in open defiance of social norms, living for decades with a married man, George Henry Lewes, in a relationship that isolated her from polite society. This author hub collects 3 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Middlemarch.