George Eliot Research Paper

George Eliot, who is he. First we must know George Eliot is not a man. George Eliot is just a pen name for Marry Ann Evans. Not many know that this great author is actually a women. One thing people do know about her is that she is one of the leading writers of the Victorian Era and one of the best of the 19th century. When exactly did Marry Ann Evans decide to use the name George Eliot and when did she begin writing? Well it all takes back to her very beginning. Marry Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819 in a place called Warwickshire. This is where she lived with her mother Christiana Pearson, her father Robert Evans, and was the youngest of three children. Her brother was Isaac Evan and her sister, Fanny Evans. She was transferred to a boarding school at the age of nine in Nuneaton and this is when she had discovered her deep passion for reading. At sixteen years old Marry Ann Evans had completed her schooling. Marry's mother died in1836. At the age of twenty she had met a group of people who had different

This was a leading journal for philosophical radicals. Marry later became the editor of this journal. Thanks to that she had met a man named George Henry Lewes. George Henry Lewes had encouraged Marry Ann to write many times. Finally in 1856, Marry Ann Evans began stories titled Scenes of Clerical Life which was about people from her native city. In 1859, her first novel, Adam Bede was published under the name George Eliot. Marry did this as an assurance that her work would be taken serious during the era where women authors were connected to romantic novels, and it was a great success. Before her first novel, she did publish a short story which is when she took the name of George Eliot. In 1878, George Henry Lewes whom encouraged Marry and housed her, died. When George was alive and allowed Marry to live with him, it caused a scandal. This was due to George being married