ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Why was George Eliot important? George Eliot was an English Victorian novelist known for the psychological depth of her characters and her descriptions of English rural life. Her major works included Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876).

Detailed explanation-2: -He earned it because he created characters and stories that people cared deeply about, and he wrote serially, so people would be caring about the characters and plot lines over the course of many months.

Detailed explanation-3: -George Eliot is best known as a realist novelist, but over the course of her career she produced work in every major literary genre except drama.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) •Jane Eyre. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) •Great Expectations. •Pickwick Papers. •Oliver Twist. George Elliot (really Mary Evans) (1819-1890) •Middlemarch. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) •Jude The Obscure.