(1819-1880) George Eliot was the pen name of English female novelist Mary Ann Evans. Bom on November 22, 1819 on a farm near Nuneaton in Warwickshire, she used many of her real- life experiences in her books, which she wrote under a man’s name in order to improve her chances of publication.Eliot worked on translations, short stories and eventually, novels. *Adam Bede* (1895), her first novel, combined realism and humor with finely tuned psychological insight. Her books reflect both deep sympathy for her characters and resolute moral judgement. *Middlemarch* (1871- 1872) features a finely detailed overview of English society and the class system. *The Mill of the Floss* (1860), *Silas Marner* (1861), and *Daniel Deronda*(1876) were also well received. After Lewes death, she married, at age 61, her friend John Cross, age 40. She died less than a year later.