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used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously.

Also as her life was very scandalous, many believe the reason she used different name is simply because she wanted to keep her privacy.

Why she used a pen name?

1814; Isaac, born in 1816 and twin brothers who survived only a few days into March 1821.
Half brother and half sister: Robert (1802) and Fanny (1805)

Attleborough
Ages 9-13: Mrs. Wallington’s school, Nuneaton
Ages 13-16: Miss Franklin’s school, Coventry
After the age of 16 she started self-educating by being allowed access to the library of Arbury Hall.

calling herself Marian Evans.


Contributed essays and reviews for the journal of the man whom she had stayed with while in London, a certain John Chapman.

1854 they had decided to live together.
He was married to Agnes Jervis with whom he had had 3 children.
They travelled to Germany for the purpose of research.
Evans worked on translation of theological texts.
They considered themselves married and everybody else considered them a scandal.

way women writers wrote at the time by writing an essay naming it ‘’Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’’. (1856)


Came up with the name George Eliot and decided to be a novelist.

to know who this new writer was.
Admitting she was Marian Evans Lewes.
It made a huge shock for her admiring readers but it never lowered her popularity.
She was completely accepted to polite society in 1877.
15 years of writing novels Daniel Deronda (1876)

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1866 FELIX HOLT, THE RADICAL

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with John Walter Cross who is twenty years younger than her.

She later on married him and changed her name to Mary Anne Cross.

John tries to kill himself during their honeymoon but survives.

They return to England where Eliot gets a throat infection which couples with kidney disease and leads her to death in 1880 at the age of 61.

in Newdegate Square, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, in 1986.