Amos Barton, the first of the Scenes from Clerical Life, was published in 1857, followed by Mr Gilfil’s Love Story and Janet’s Repentance. Her earliest fictional works appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine and attracted immediate critical acclaim as well as considerable interest in the identity of their author. It was Lewes who encouraged Eliot to turn her attention away from philosophy and towards fiction. As he already had a wife from whom he was estranged, the couple made the decision to live together unmarried, a union which lasted from 1854 to Lewes’s death in 1878.
She also met the writer and critic George Henry Lewes, and their relationship would have resulted in marriage had Lewes been free. In 1850 Eliot became a contributor to The Westminster Review and in 1851, when Chapman became its proprietor, he offered her the position of Literary Editor.įollowing her move to London in 1849 after the death of her father, she formed a close friendship with the philosopher Herbert Spencer, whom she nearly married. Her friendship with the Brays resulted in an introduction to John Chapman, the publisher, and to a commission to translate Strauss’s Life of Jesus. In 1841 she moved to Coventry, where her friendship with the progressive intellectuals Charles and Caroline Bray led to her questioning her orthodox religious beliefs.
After her mother’s death she became her father’s housekeeper for a time, continuing to educate herself and learning German and Italian.
George Eliot is the pen-name of Mary Ann (Marian) Evans, who was born in 1819 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, where her father was a land agent.Īs a young girl she was much influenced by an evangelical preacher, the Rev. Titles by George Eliot Titles by George Eliot Adam Bede (unabridged) Daniel Deronda (unabridged) Imperialism (unabridged) Middlemarch (abridged) Middlemarch (unabridged) The Mill on the Floss (abridged) The Mill on the Floss (unabridged) Romola (unabridged) Silas Marner (abridged) Silas Marner (unabridged) Booklet Notes
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