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She was an English novelist, journalist and translator in the Victorian era.

George Eliot died on Decemat 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes. The Author Mary Anne (also spelled Mary Ann or Marian) Evans (18191880), is best known by her pen name George Eliot. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch. Her first attempt to write Middlemarch, her most famous novel, ended in failure. In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She later moved to Coventry with her father. Based closely on the authors own life, Maggies story explores the conflicts of love and loyalty and the friction between desire and moral responsibility. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name.

GEORGE ELIOT was born in Nuneaton on November 22, 1819.