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: -Mary Ann Evans was an English writer and novelist popularly known by the pseudonym George Eliot, under which she published all of her written works. Evans first chose to write novels out of financial need.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -That period of Eliot’s life, when she was a social outcast, became her most productive. Eventually, she fell for another writer, George Henry Lewes.