The Life Work And Quotes Of George Eliot

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The Life Work And Quotes Of George Eliot

George Eliot is the pen name of female novelist Mary Anne Evans. English Literature Buzz collects some information about George Eliot who is a female. Let me tell you about the life and work of George Eliot whose name was actually Mary Anne Evans.

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She was born on 22nd November 1819 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England and died on 22nd December 1880 at the age of 61 in Chelsea, Middlesex, London.

George Eliot's Well Known Works

She was a Victorian novelist. She was also a poet, journalist, and translator. She wrote seven novels:

1- Adam Bede (1859)
2- The Mill on the Floss (1860)
3- Silas Marner (1861)
4- Felix Holt (1866)
5- The Radical (1866)
6- Middlemarch (1871-72)
7- Daniel Deronda (1876)

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Adam Bede was her first novel. She is famous for her psychological realism. She is one of the 'founding fathers' of the modern psychological novel. The interesting thing which I want to tell you about George Eliot is that she is like a lot of other women writers depended largely upon her own experience. And it is to this experience and to her life in the English Midlands that she returns again and again for her material. Although in her later novels George Eliot does draw characters belonging to the upper class.

Wordsworth influenced her profoundly. She echoes Wordsworth's interest in rustic life and uses the dialect spoken by the humble rustics to make her portrayal of character more realistic.

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George Eliot's Famous Quotes

1- Wear a smile and have friends;

Wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

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2- Don't judge a book by its cover.

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3- It will never rain roses:

When we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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4- Animals are such agreeable friends;

they ask no questions, pass no criticisms.

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