ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

Detailed explanation-2: -She used the male pen name George Eliot for the first time to ensure that her fiction writing would not be related to her previous work and to avoid the stereotype of contemporary women novelists who were not taken seriously. Two years later, she published her first novel, Adam Bede.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following is true of Mary Anne Evans? She published under the pen name George Eliot and is still published under that name.

Detailed explanation-4: -George Eliot was the pen name of the novelist Mary Ann Evans. She grew up in Warwickshire at a time when industrialisation was transforming the countryside. Her mother died when she was 17, and in 1841 she and her father moved to Coventry which she would use as inspiration for the fictional town of Middlemarch.

Detailed explanation-5: -George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann, or Marian, Cross, née Evans, (born November 22, 1819, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England-died December 22, 1880, London), English Victorian novelist who developed the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction.