ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -George Eliot as a modern novelist George Eliot is known as a modern novelist inspite of living in Victorian Age. She wrote in the fashion contrary to that of her contemporaries, Dickens, Thackeray, etc. She is not completely divorced from the traditions.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.